"It's a very difficult disease. Improving the quality of life of patients, that alone is already a lot.". A neuroendocrinologist at Inserm and at the biomedical research center of the University of Strasbourg, Matei Bolborea works on Charcot's disease.
With its scientific name "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that is currently incurable, which causes the death of motor neurons and consequently progressive paralysis of the muscles involved in voluntary motor function. As the disease progresses, it eventually affects the muscles responsible for breathing, and induces sleep disorders (apnea, waking up, etc.). In the case of other neurodegenerative diseases, there are also sleep disorders that are part of the diagnostic elements (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's), which until now had not been studied in the case of ALS.
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