Research Digest

MDA's Research Digest features listings of current research articles from the scientific literature that are relevant to MDA's program. Each article is linked, whenever possible, to its PubMed abstract.

In addition, research papers are cross-referenced to all relevant articles on MDA's Web site, including Quest articles, The ALS Newsletter articles, press releases, FAQs and Research Digest summaries.

The Research Digest area is updated every one to two months.

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Research Digest Categories:

GENERAL:

• General Neuromuscular Disease
  

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES:

• Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophies (DMD and BMD)
  
• Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD)
• Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSH or FSHD)
  
• Myotonic Dystrophy (MMD)
  
• Rare Muscular Dystrophies
  (including: Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy, OPMD; Distal Muscular Dystrophy, DD; Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy, EDMD; Congenital Muscular Dystrophy, CMD)

MOTOR NEURON DISEASES:

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy
  (including: Infantile Progressive SMA, Type 1; Intermediate SMA, Type 2; Juvenile SMA, Type 3; Adult SMA; Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy;Kennedy's Disease)

INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES:

• Inflammatory myopathies
  (including Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis, PM/DM; Inclusion Body Myositis, IBM)

DISEASES OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION:

• Neuromuscular junction disorders
  (including Myasthenia Gravis, MG; Lambert-Eaton Syndrome, LES; Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes)

MYOPATHIES DUE TO ENDOCRINE ABNORMALITIES:

• Hyperthyroid Myopathy (HYPTM) and Hypothyroid Myopathy (HYPOTM)

DISEASES OF PERIPHERAL NERVE:

• Peripheral nervous system diseases
  (including Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, CMT; Friedreich's Ataxia, FA; Dejerine-Sottas Disease, DS)

OTHER MYOPATHIES:

• Myopathies
  (including Myotonia Congenita, MC; Paramyotonia Congenita, PC; Central Core Disease, CCD; Nemaline Myopathy, NM; Myotubular Myopathy, MTM or MM; Periodic Paralysis, PP)

METABOLIC DISEASES OF MUSCLE:

• Mitochondrial Myopathies and Encephalomyopathies (MITO)
  
• Other Metabolic Diseases of Muscle
  (including Phosphorylase Deficiency, MPD or PYGM; Acid Maltase Deficiency, AMD; Phosphofructokinase Deficiency, PFKM; Debrancher Enzyme Deficiency, DBD; Carnitine Deficiency, CD; Carnitine Palmityl Transferase Deficiency, CPT; Phosphoglycerate Kinase Deficiency, PGK; Phosphoglycerate Mutase Deficiency, PGAM or PGAMM; Lactate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, LDHA; Myoadenylate Deaminase Deficiency, MAD)