Assertion: als | /r/CapableOf | affect motor neurons
Facets:
value: in the brain
type: LOCATION
value: specifically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive disease that affects motor neurons, which are specialized nerve cells that control muscle movement.
text: Because ALS affects only motor neurons, the disease does not impair a person's mind, personality, intelligence, or memory.
text: ALS affects both upper motor neurons, found in the motor cortex of the brain, and lower motor neurons, found in the brain stem and spinal cord.
text: ALS affects the motor neurons, cerebral cortex, brainstem and spinal cord (“ALS - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,” n.d.).
text: Because amyotrophic lateral sclerosis affects only motor neurons, the disease does not impair a person's:
text: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare neurological disorder that affects motor neurons, which are nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement such as walking, talking and eating.
text: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive disease that affects motor neurons, which are specialized nerve cells that control muscle movement.
text: As ALS specifically affects motor neurons (nerve cells that are responsible for voluntary movements such as walking or talking), ALS generally starts with muscle twitching, weakness in a limb, or slurred speech.
text: Or convesely things that are covered in more detail in the MND article could be linked to from bits of the ALS article that are more sparse, e.g. the extra-motor change part, which renders this statement untrue: "Because ALS affects only motor neurons, the disease does not impair a person's mind, personality, intelligence, or memory
text: ALS affects the upper motor neurons, which are in the brain, and the lower motor neurons, which are in the spinal cord and brainstem.
text: ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a degenerative disorder affecting upper motor neurons in the brain and lower motor neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord.