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Our major goal is to understand the pathological mechansisms leading to neurodegeneration and cell death in neurodegenerative diseases, with special focus on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).The current involvement is centred on molecular pathological studies of human ALS tissue and the clinical pathology of ALS variants and familial ALS. Professor Troost administers and manages the ALS Brain Tissue Bank of the AMC.