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Alon Chen, neuroscientist, president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and an expert in stress, stressed the need for further research in this field to be able to provide a solution to many ailments and diseases -even without a solution - associated to such a complex organ as is the brain: from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), anxiety, depression, autism, schizophrenia, or stress. As he said, in these last 2 years of the pandemic, we have realized how important mental health is, even more so after reviewing the latest data on suicide, and how it has caused post-traumatic syndrome to population, reaching all its layers.

Speaker: Alon Chen. President of the Weizmann Institute of Science

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease. For years it has been an invisible disease for society. It has gone so unnoticed that no significant progress has been made to stop its progression or cure the disease, due not only to the great complexity of the disease, but to the lack of economic and institutional support. Hence, to date, there is no effective curative treatment for ALS.

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