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(more commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS) is a neuromuscular disease that causes damage to the nerve cells controlling voluntary muscle movement, also known as motor neurons. It belongs to a group of diseases, known as motor neuron diseases, which affect the motor system. The motor system is a tag team of nerve cells (neurons) that carries messages from the area that controls movement in the brain to the muscle.