Posted in Web Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS): Symptoms, Causes, Types November 11, 2019 ALS is short for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. You might also have heard it called Lou Gehrig’s disease, after the baseball player who was diagnosed with it in the 1930s. A French doctor named… https://www.webmd.com/brain/understanding-als-basics