Dr Peter Scott-Morgan was a well-known robotics scientist from the United Kingdom. Scott-Morgan was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, generally known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in 2017.
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In the United Kingdom, his sickness is known as Motor Neurone Disease (MND), the same degenerative disease as affected physicist Stephen Hawking.
He’s been well-known in the U.K. since the 2020 release of a primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg, and his subsequent memoir, Peter 2.0.
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ALS affects the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that tell muscles what to do. The loss of motor neurons in the brain causes messages to muscles in the body to be disrupted as ALS advances.
Muscles atrophy with time and people with ALS lose their ability to move their arms, legs, and entire bodies. They lose their ability to speak, walk, breathe, and swallow.
Most people die of respiratory failure within three to five years of the onset of symptoms. Dr Peter Scott-Morgan passed away on 15 June 2022, surrounded by his family
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