It is just two of the twelve music therapy sessions that are left for each of the Music Therapy for ALS study participants. 14 more home visits in Moscow this week and

Today is the World (anti-)ALS Day. It has been almost a year since this research has begun. And the most important news for today: the 6-week treatment stage is almost completed  – and

It’s been a month! The treatment phase has started on May 21 and has been so intense that I simply have no time for blogging! I do have much to share though.

Exciting new to share: our presentation on “Music therapy in multidisciplinary ALS rehabilitation: research and practice” has been included into the programme of the 16th Allied Health Professionals’ Forum, MNDA Symposium. I

It is almost hard to believe: today is the day when the field phase of our study starts! All 8 participants were recruited by April 7 2018 from the number of patients

I am grateful to announce that Bose Corporation will contribute to this research as a part of the company’s charitable giving program. Thank you, Bose, for bringing new hope to thousands of

I am in Moscow now, working with the supportive, very involved multidisciplinary team at ALS Centre Moscow to finalize the recruitment. On this photo Yana, Dasha, Sergey and me are taking yet

The study has now received ethics clearances from the ethics committee at Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK) and the Moscow Ethics CommitteeApproval form ETHICS Moscow Ethics Committee, which allows me to announce officially

Stephen Hawking, modern cosmology’s brightest star, dies aged 76, The Guardian reports. Diagnosed with ALS / MND in 1963, at age 21, he lived for 55 years with the disease, which has

This took many painstaking hours, but one of the two Ethics Committee Approvals is received! Moscow Committee is to follow – and we are all set to start the treatment phase, as planned,