**AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS**

Edited by **Martin H. Maurer**

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/1054 Edited by Martin H. Maurer

#### **Contributors**

Luciano Bruno De Carvalho Silva, Arun Aggarwal, Heike Schmolck, Michele York, Paul Schulz, Alvaro G. Estévez, Maria Clara Franco, Trent Woodruff, John Lee, Jia Lee, Stephen Taylor, Peter Noakes, Alexander Panov, Herbert Bonkovsky, Paolo Bongioanni, Sherif M ElBasiouny, Katharina Ann Quinlan, Cj Heckman, Tahra Eissa, Ali Bulent Usakli, Yoshiaki Furukawa, Kim Staats, Ludo Van Den Bosch, Cristina Cereda, Stella Gagliardi, Emanuela Cova, Luca Diamanti, Mauro Ceroni, Masatoshi Suzuki, Ricardo Tapia, Jeroen Pasterkamp, Alessandro Vercelli, Marina Boido, Elisa Buschini, Giada Spigolon, Antonio Piras, Valeria Valsecchi, Letizia Mazzini, Marc Cruts, Ilse Gijselinck, Christine van Broeckhoven, Kristel Sleegers, Helen Broom, Elizabeth Meiering, Louisa Ng, Fary Khan, Janine Kirby, Johnathan Cooper-Knock, Joanna Bury, Emily Goodall, Pamela Shaw, Laura Ferraiuolo, Gilles Guillemin, Daniele Lo Coco, Paolo Volanti, Domenico De Cicco, Antonio Spanevello, Gianluca Battaglia, Vincenzo La Bella, Santino Marchese, Rossella Spataro, Alfonsa Claudia Taiello, Cassie Mitchell, Seiichi Nagano, Ferdinando Sartucci, Tommaso Bocci, Chiara Rossi, Fabio Giannini, Lucia Briscese, Chiara Pecori, Jari Koistinaho, Nicholas Maragakis, Amanda Phillips, Martin Henrik H. Maurer, François Berthod, Francois Gros-Louis

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