Would you prefer to help refine and improve the way in which amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurological diseases are diagnosed and treated?

A corporation called EverythingALS is on the lookout for volunteers living in Recent Jersey to assist in the fight against ALS, also commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease, a condition that leads to a progressive lack of the motor neurons that control voluntary muscles.

Indu Navar, who lost her husband to ALS in 2019, said there’s currently no standardized diagnosis for this disease, so she founded EverythingALS with the goal of using artificial intelligence and technology innovations to discover and measure the progression of ALS and improve treatment options.

Record your personal voice

Navar said in an ongoing study, volunteers from all around the world who’re healthy, those that have a history of ALS of their family, and individuals already fighting neurological symptoms of the disease, read different passages and record themselves at home once a month for a time frame.

“From that AI and machine learning is applied, where we are going to have the ability to see the small, minute changes which are happening in certain words and certain syllables,” she said.

She noted neurological changes within the brain are identifiable within the voice and speech “so what we’re doing is we’re studying psychologically how individuals are changing through the disease, before it becomes symptomatic.”

Navar said ALS shouldn’t be a disease of the elderly.

“Now we have people of their 20s, 30s, and I feel the youngest is an 8-year-old. Now we have many teenagers.”

Higher diagnosis and treatment

Navar said the thought here is to higher understand, track and ultimately treat ALS.

“We’re really this as what we call digital biomarkers, that’s exactly what we are attempting to realize.”

To learn tips on how to change into an element of the study, visit everythingals.org and click on on the research tab.

David Matthau is a reporter for Recent Jersey 101.5. You possibly can reach him at david.matthau@townsquaremedia.com