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Klein­hirn bei der ALS, Immun­fär­bung von TDP-43 (brau­ne Fär­bung), mikro­sko­pi­sche Dar­stel­lung, @Institut für Neu­ro­pa­tho­lo­gie der Cha­ri­té

Publi­ka­tio­nen mit For­schungs­för­de­rung durch die Boris Canes­sa ALS Stif­tung

ALS motor phe­no­ty­pes: a revi­sed ‘OPM’ clas­si­fi­ca­ti­on

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Nico­la Ticoz­zi, Mar­kus Weber, John Ravits, Paul Lin­g­or, Mag­da­le­na Kuź­ma-Koza­kie­wicz, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Tors­ten Grehl, Phil­ip­pe Cor­cia, Móni­ca Poved­a­no Pana­dés, André Mai­er, Caro­li­ne Ing­re, Hakan Cetin, Patrick Weydt, Chris­ti­an Lunet­ta, Leo­nard van den Berg, Albert C. Ludolph, David Bren­ner, Mar­tin R Tur­ner, Ange­la Genge
Medi­um
Amyo­tro­phic Late­ral Scle­ro­sis and Fron­to­tem­po­ral Dege­ne­ra­ti­on, März 2026
doi
10.1080/21678421.2026.2644277
PMID
41843813
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Mini­mum important slo­wing of dise­a­se pro­gres­si­on as deter­mi­ned by the ALS func­tion­al rating sca­le — a sur­vey of pati­ent expec­ta­ti­ons toward dise­a­se-modi­fy­ing drugs in ALS

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, André Mai­er, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Uta Smes­ny, Robert Stein­bach, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Bet­ti­na Göri­cke, Sarah Bern­sen, Patrick Weydt, Rachel Fabi­an, Susan­ne Petri, Rea Lumi, Bog­dan Bje­li­ca, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Paul Lin­g­or, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Ales­sio Riita­no, Peg­gy Schu­mann, Chris­toph Münch, Susan­ne Spit­tel
Medi­um
Amyo­tro­phic Late­ral Scle­ro­sis and Fron­to­tem­po­ral Dege­ne­ra­ti­on, Janu­ar 2026
doi
10.1080/21678421.2026.2615117
PMID
41557593
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Motor phe­no­ty­pes and neu­ro­fi­la­ment light chain in gene­tic amyo­tro­phic late­ral sclerosis—results from a mul­ti­cen­ter scree­ning pro­gram

Autor*innen
Phil­ipp Schmitt, Peg­gy Schu­mann, Alex­an­der Koerbs, Hsuen-Ju Lin, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Susan­ne Petri, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Robert Stein­bach, Juli­an Groß­kreutz, Sarah Bern­sen, Patrick Weydt, Joa­chim Wolf, René Gün­ther, Petra Baum, Moritz Metel­mann, Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Bert­hold Streu­bel, David C. Kas­per, Yase­min Koc, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Chris­toph Münch, Susan­ne Spit­tel, André Mai­er, Péter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy, Tho­mas Mey­er
Medi­um
Jour­nal of Neu­ro­lo­gy, Dezem­ber 2025
doi
10.1007/s00415-025–13555‑6
PMID
41388206
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Agree­ment Bet­ween the Har­mo­ni­zed and the Self-Expl­ana­to­ry Ver­si­ons of the Revi­sed ALS Func­tion­al Rating Sca­le in a Cli­ni­cal Set­ting

Autor*innen
André Mai­er, Yas­min Koc, Lau­ra Stein­furth, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Ales­sio Riita­no, Phil­lip Schmitt, Felix Kolz­arek, Sent­hil Subra­ma­ni­an, Chris­toph Münch, Susan­ne Spit­tel, Tho­mas Mey­er
Medi­um
Mus­cle & Ner­ve, Novem­ber 2025
doi
10.1002/mus.70092
PMID
41328555
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Dextromethorphan/quinidine (DMQ) for redu­cing bul­bar sym­ptoms in amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis — assess­ment of tre­at­ment expe­ri­ence in a mul­ti­cen­ter stu­dy

Autor*innen
Susan­ne Spit­tel, Tors­ten Grehl, Patrick Weydt, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Rachel Fabi­an, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Uta Smes­ny, Robert Stein­bach, Ben­ja­min Ilse, Ute Wey­en, Susan­ne Petri, Rea Lumi, Bog­dan Bje­li­ca, Paul Lin­g­or, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Bet­ti­na M. Göri­cke, Wal­traud Pfeil­schif­ter, Wib­ke Schme­ja, Johan­nes Dorst, Alex­an­der Mensch, Jür­gen Sie­bert, Jen­ny Nor­den, Sarah Bern­sen, Sent­hil Kumar Subra­ma­ni­an, Bar­ba­ra Hil­de­brandt, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Chris­toph Münch, André Mai­er, Tho­mas Mey­er
Medi­um
Amyo­tro­phic Late­ral Scle­ro­sis and Fron­to­tem­po­ral Dege­ne­ra­ti­on, Sep­tem­ber 2025
doi
10.1080/21678421.2025.2557932
PMID
40932199
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Motor phe­no­ty­pes of amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis — a three-deter­mi­nant ana­to­mic­al clas­si­fi­ca­ti­on based on the regi­on of onset, pro­pa­ga­ti­on of motor sym­ptoms, and the degree of upper and lower motor neu­ron dys­func­tion

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Juli­an Groß­kreutz, Patrick Weydt, Sarah Bern­sen, Peter Rei­lich, Robert Stein­bach, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Joa­chim Wolf, Ute Wey­en, Albert C. Ludolph, Jochen Weis­haupt, Susan­ne Petri, Paul Lin­g­or, René Gün­ther, Wolf­gang Löscher, Mar­kus Weber, Chris­toph Münch, André Mai­er, Tors­ten Grehl
Medi­um
Neu­ro­lo­gi­cal Rese­arch and Prac­ti­ce, April 2025
doi
10.1186/s42466-025–00389‑w
PMID
40289140
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Pro­vi­si­on, cough effi­ca­cy and tre­at­ment satis­fac­tion of mecha­ni­cal insuf­fla­ti­on-exsuf­fla­ti­on in a lar­ge mul­ti­cen­ter cohort of pati­ents with amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis

Autor*innen
André Mai­er, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Ute Wey­en, Tors­ten Grehl, Peter Cas­par Schul­te, Robert Stein­bach, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Patrick Weydt, Susan­ne Petri, Joa­chim Wolf, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Jan Chris­toph Koch, Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Simo­ne Ros­se­au, Jen­ny Nor­den, Peter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy, Bir­git Koch, Tere­sa Holm, Bar­ba­ra Hil­de­brandt, Peg­gy Schu­mann, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Ales­sio Riita­no, Chris­toph Münch, Tho­mas Mey­er, Susan­ne Spit­tel
Medi­um
Sci­en­ti­fic Reports, März 2025
doi
10.1038/s41598-025–91692‑8
PMID
40025240
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Self-assess­ment of amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis func­tion­al rating sca­le on the patient’s smart­phone pro­ves to be non-infe­ri­or to cli­nic data cap­tu­re

Autor*innen
Lau­ra Stein­furth, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Robert Stein­bach, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Susan­ne Petri, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Patrick Weydt, Sarah Bern­sen, Bert­ram Wal­ter, René Gün­ther, Paul Lin­g­or, Jan Chris­toph Koch, Petra Baum, Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Johan­nes Dorst, Yase­min Koc, Isa­bell Cord­ts, Maxi­mi­li­an Vido­vic, Jen­ny Nor­den, Peg­gy Schu­mann, Péter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy, Susan­ne Spit­tel, Chris­toph Münch, André Mai­er, Tho­mas Mey­er
Medi­um
Amyo­tro­phic Late­ral Scle­ro­sis and Fron­to­tem­po­ral Dege­ne­ra­ti­on, Febru­ar 2025
doi
10.1080/21678421.2025.2468404
PMID
39985291
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Shared pro­gno­stic infor­ma­ti­on in amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis — sys­te­ma­tic assess­ment of the pati­ents’ per­cep­ti­on of neu­ro­fi­la­ment light chain and the ALS func­tion­al rating sca­le

Autor*innen
Lukas Maxi­mi­li­an Möh­wald, André Mai­er, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Patrick Weydt, René Gün­ther, Paul Lin­g­or, Bet­ti­na Göri­cke, Susan­ne Petri, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Isa­bell Cord­ts, Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Johan­nes Dorst, Chris­toph Münch, Tho­mas Mey­er, Petra Baum
Medi­um
Neu­ro­lo­gi­cal Rese­arch and Prac­ti­ce, Febru­ar 2025
doi
10.1186/s42466-024–00363‑y
PMID
39910638
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SOD1 gene scree­ning in ALS – fre­quen­cy of muta­ti­ons, pati­ents’ atti­tu­des to gene­tic infor­ma­ti­on and tran­si­ti­on to tofer­sen tre­at­ment in a mul­ti-cen­ter pro­gram

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Peg­gy Schu­mann, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Susan­ne Petri, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Robert Stein­bach, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Sarah Bern­sen, Patrick Weydt, Joa­chim Wolf, René Gün­ther, Maxi­mi­li­an Vido­vic, Petra Baum, Moritz Metel­mann, Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Bert­hold Streu­bel, David C. Kas­per, Yase­min Koc, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Phil­ipp Schmitt, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Chris­toph Münch, Susan­ne Spit­tel, André Mai­er, Péter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy
Medi­um
Amyo­tro­phic Late­ral Scle­ro­sis and Fron­to­tem­po­ral Dege­ne­ra­ti­on, Sep­tem­ber 2024
doi
10.1080/21678421.2024.2401131
PMID
39268612
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User expec­ta­ti­ons and expe­ri­en­ces of an assis­ti­ve robo­tic arm in amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis: a mul­ti­cen­ter obser­va­tio­nal stu­dy

Autor*innen
Susan­ne Spit­tel, Tho­mas Mey­er, Ute Wey­en, Tors­ten Grehl, Patrick Weydt, Robert Stein­bach, Susan­ne Petri, Petra Baum, Moritz Metel­mann, Anne-Dor­te Sper­feld, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Ben­ja­min Ilse, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Bar­ba­ra Hil­de­brandt, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Chris­toph Münch, André Mai­er
Medi­um
Neu­ro­lo­gi­cal Rese­arch and Prac­ti­ce, August 2024
doi
10.1186/s42466-024–00342‑3
PMID
39180054
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Tofer­sen decrea­ses neu­ro­fi­la­ment levels sup­port­ing the patho­ge­ne­sis of the SOD1 p.D91A vari­ant in amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis pati­ents

Autor*innen
Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Péter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy, Peg­gy Schu­mann, Ivan Val­ka­di­nov, Ute Wey­en, Jas­per Hese­beck-Brinck­mann, Kan­chi Weis­haupt, Mat­thi­as End­res, Peter M. Ander­sen, Mar­tin Regens­bur­ger, Marie Dre­ger, Jan C. Koch, Juli­an Con­rad, Tho­mas Mey­er
Medi­um
Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons Medi­ci­ne, Juli 2024
doi
10.1038/s43856-024–00573‑0
PMID
39054363
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Cli­ni­cal and pati­ent-repor­ted out­co­mes and neu­ro­fi­la­ment respon­se during tofer­sen tre­at­ment in SOD1-rela­ted ALS‑A mul­ti­cen­ter obser­va­tio­nal stu­dy over 18 months

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Peg­gy Schu­mann, Patrick Weydt, Susan­ne Petri, Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Ute Wey­en, Jan C. Koch, René Gün­ther, Mar­tin Regens­bur­ger, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Maxi­mi­li­an Wie­senf­arth, Yase­min Koc, Felix Kolz­arek, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Sarah Bern­sen, Zeynep Elmas, Juli­an Con­rad, Ivan Val­ka­di­nov, Maxi­mi­li­an Vido­vic, Johan­nes Dorst, Albert C. Ludolph, Jas­per Hese­beck-Brinck­mann, Susan­ne Spit­tel, Chris­toph Münch, André Mai­er, Péter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy
Medi­um
Mus­cle and Ner­ve, Juni 2024
doi
10.1002/mus.28182
PMID
39031772
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Serum neu­ro­fi­la­ment light chain in distinct phe­no­ty­pes of amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis: A lon­gi­tu­di­nal, mul­ti­cen­ter stu­dy

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Marie Dre­ger, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Patrick Weydt, René Gün­ther, Paul Lin­g­or, Susan­ne Petri, Jan Chris­toph Koch, Juli­an Groß­kreutz, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Petra Baum, Andre­as Her­mann, Johan­nes Prud­lo, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Wolf­gang N. Löscher, Johan­nes Dorst, Yase­min Koc, Sarah Bern­sen, Isa­bell Cord­ts, Maxi­mi­li­an Vido­vic, Robert Stein­bach, Moritz Metel­mann, Vera E. Klein­veld, Jen­ny Nor­den, Albert Ludolph, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Peg­gy Schu­mann, Chris­toph Münch, Péter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy, André Mai­er
Medi­um
Euro­pean Jour­nal of Neu­ro­lo­gy, Juni 2024
doi
10.1111/ene.16379
PMID
38859579
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Neu­ro­fi­la­ment light chain respon­se during the­ra­py with anti­sen­se oli­go­nu­cleo­ti­de Tofer­sen in SOD1-rela­ted ALS – tre­at­ment expe­ri­ence in cli­ni­cal prac­ti­ce

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Peg­gy Schu­mann, Patrick Weydt, Susan­ne Petri, Yase­min Koc, Susan­ne Spit­tel, Sarah Bern­sen, René Gün­ther, Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Marie Dre­ger, Felix Kolz­arek, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Maxi­mi­li­an Vido­vic, Chris­ti­an Mei­sel, Chris­toph Münch, André Mai­er, Peter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy
Medi­um
Mus­cle & Ner­ve, März 2023
doi
10.1002/mus.27818
PMID
36928619
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Per­for­mance of serum neu­ro­fi­la­ment light chain in a wide spec­trum of cli­ni­cal cour­ses of amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis – a cross-sec­tion­al mul­ti­cen­ter stu­dy

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Erma Sal­kic, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Patrick Weydt, René Gün­ther, Paul Lin­g­or, Jan Chris­toph Koch, Susan­ne Petri, Andre­as Her­mann, Johan­nes Prud­lo, Juli­an Groß­kreutz, Petra Baum, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Moritz Metel­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Isa­bell Cord­ts, Jochen H. Weis­haupt, Johan­nes Dorst, Albert Ludolp, Yase­min Koc, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Chris­toph Münch, Susan­ne Spit­tel, Marie Dre­ger, André Mai­er, Peter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy
Medi­um
Euro­pean Jour­nal of Neu­ro­lo­gy, März 2023
doi
10.1111/ene 15773
PMID
36899448
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Remo­te digi­tal assess­ment of amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis func­tion­al rating sca­le – a mul­ti­cen­ter obser­va­tio­nal stu­dy

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Susan­ne Spit­tel, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Robert Stein­bach, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Susan­ne Petri, Patrick Weydt, René Gün­ther, Petra Baum, Ele­na Schla­pa­kow, Jan Chris­toph Koch, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Joa­chim Wolf, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Ben­ja­min Ilse, Moritz Metel­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Ruhan Yase­min Koc, Péter Kört­vé­ly­es­sy, Ales­sio Riita­no, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Bar­ba­ra Hil­de­brandt, Fried­rich Schau­dinn, Chris­toph Münch, André Mai­er
Medi­um
Amyo­tro­phic Late­ral Scle­ro­sis and Fron­to­tem­po­ral Dege­ne­ra­ti­on, August 2022
doi
10.1080/21678421.2022.2104649
PMID
35912984
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ALS­FRS-R-SE: an adapt­ed, anno­ta­ted, and self-expl­ana­to­ry ver­si­on of the revi­sed amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis func­tion­al rating sca­le

Autor*innen
André Mai­er, Mat­thi­as Boen­tert, Peter Rei­lich, Simon Wit­zel, Susan­ne Petri, Juli­an Groß­kreutz, Moritz Metel­mann, Paul Lin­g­or, Isa­bell Cord­ts, Johan­nes Dorst, Dani­el Zel­ler, René Gün­ther, Tim Hagen­acker, Tors­ten Grehl, Susan­ne Spit­tel, Joa­chim Schus­ter, Albert Ludolph & Tho­mas Mey­er for the MND-NET con­sen­sus group
Medi­um
Neu­ro­lo­gi­cal Rese­arch and Prac­ti­ce, Dezem­ber 2022
doi
10.1186/s42466-022–00224‑6
PMID
36522775
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Use and sub­jec­ti­ve expe­ri­ence of the impact of motor-assis­ted move­ment exer­cisers in peo­p­le with amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis: a mul­ti­cen­ter obser­va­tio­nal stu­dy

Autor*innen
André Mai­er, Mar­cel Gaud­litz, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Robert Stein­bach, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Anne­kath­rin Rödi­ger, Jan Chris­toph Koch, Tere­sa Len­gen­feld, Patrick Weydt, René Gün­ther, Joa­chim Wolf, Petra Baum, Moritz Metel­mann, Johan­nes Dorst, Albert C. Ludolph, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Jen­ny Nor­den, Ruhan Yase­min Koc, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Bar­ba­ra Hil­de­brandt, Chris­toph Münch, Tho­mas Mey­er, Susan­ne Spit­tel
Medi­um
Sci­en­ti­fic Reports, Juni 2022
doi
10.1038/s41598-022–13761‑6
PMID
35688956
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Non-inva­si­ve and tra­cheo­sto­my inva­si­ve ven­ti­la­ti­on in amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis: Uti­liza­ti­on and sur­vi­val rates in a cohort stu­dy over 12 years in Ger­ma­ny

Autor*innen
Susan­ne Spit­tel, André Mai­er, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Bir­git Koch, Kers­tin Krau­se, Jen­ny Nor­den, Chris­toph Münch, Tho­mas Mey­er
Medi­um
Euro­pean Jour­nal of Neu­ro­lo­gy, Novem­ber 2020
doi
10.1111/ene.14647
PMID
32317400
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Sym­pto­ma­tic phar­ma­co­the­ra­py in ALS: data ana­ly­sis from a plat­form-based medi­ca­ti­on manage­ment pro­gram­me

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, André Mai­er, Tors­ten Grehl, Ute Wey­en, Juli­an Gross­kreutz, Robert Stein­bach, Jen­ny Nor­den, Annet­te Geor­ge, Andre­as Her­mann, René Guen­ther, Susan­ne Petri, Oli­via Schrei­ber-Katz, Johan­nes Dorst, Albert C Ludolph, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Chris­toph Münch, Susan­ne Spit­tel
Medi­um
Jour­nal of Neu­ro­lo­gy, Neu­ro­sur­gery and Psych­ia­try, April 2020
doi
10.1136/jnnp-2020–322938
PMID
32317400
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Real world expe­ri­ence of pati­ents with amyo­tro­phic late­ral scle­ro­sis (ALS) in the tre­at­ment of spas­ti­ci­ty using tetrahydrocannabinol:cannabidiol (THC:CBD)

Autor*innen
Tho­mas Mey­er, Andre­as Fun­ke, Chris­toph Münch, Dag­mar Ket­te­mann, André Mai­er, Bert­ram Wal­ter, Annett Tho­mas, Susan­ne Spit­tel
Medi­um
BMC Neu­ro­lo­gy, Sep­tem­ber 2019
doi
10.1186/s12883-019‑1443‑y
PMID
31493784
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