Rising brain disease cases mask three distinct trends across Parkinson's, MS and ALS

The number of patients living with neurodegenerative diseases that affect movement is rising steadily.

Yet a large-scale study from the Paris Brain Institute and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm shows that this is not an emerging health crisis: The trend conceals very different realities, with direct implications for public health policy and research.

The findings are published in the journal Neurology. ...