Dr Sarah White[/caption]
Rory Johnston MPS[/caption]
There is often a perception that people are simply overweight due to overeating, said Mr Johnston, but there are myriad conditions and medicine classes that can cause patients to gain weight, including:
Aetiology and pathophysiology 
Initial symptoms are usually mild and may include1,2,8:
Delays in diagnosis may result from various factors.11 This may include patients not seeking immediate diagnosis, initial misdiagnosis, referral to non-neurological specialists and delayed referral to a neurologist.11 General practitioners will probably only encounter one patient with MND in their careers.1,11 Differential diagnoses may include a variety of other neurological conditions, including Kennedy’s disease, an inherited disorder which progresses very slowly, involves only lower motor neurones and exhibits similar symptoms to those of MND.1,2 
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