^○Kenichi Sakai, Naohiro Fumoto, Yoshimitsu Urai, Takashi Haraguchi, Yasuyuki Tanabe, Yuetsu Ihara (Department of Neurology, Minami-Okayama Medical Center)

^○Chiho Ishida¹, Kiyonobu Komai¹, Kazuya Takahashi¹, Yuko Motozaki¹, Tokuhei Ikeda¹, Miwako Asakawa¹, Atsuro Tagami² (1.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Iou Hospital, 2.Department of Internal Medicine, National Hospital Organization Iou Hospital)

^○Yuji Kawano, Naokazu Sasagasako, Akihumi Yamamoto, Hajime Arahata, Akihiro Watanabe, Ayako Miyosi (Department of Neurology, Oomuta Hospital)

^○Kiyotaka Nakamagoe¹, Shiori Yamada¹, Tadachika Koganezawa³, Seitaro Nohara², Naoki Tozaka², Zenshi Miyake², Shou Okune², Hayato Takeda², Hitomi Shimizu², Akira Tamaoka¹ (1.Department of Neurology,Division of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 2.Department of Neurology, University of Tsukuba Hospital, 3.Department of Physiology, Division of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba)

^○Kota Bokuda¹, Toshio Shimizu¹, Hideki Kimura¹, Tsutomu Kamiyama¹, Ryo Morishima¹, Yuki Nakayama², Akihiro Kawata¹, Eiji Isozaki¹ (1.Department of Neurology Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital, 2.ALS Nursing Care Project Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of MedicalScience)

^○Ryo Tokimura, Takenobu Murakami, Yoshikazu Ugawa (Department of Neurology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan)

^○Kazuhiro Honda, Mizuho Koide, Nobuyuki Araki, Sagiri Isose, Takahiro Takeda, Kimiko Ito, Kimihito Arai (National Hospital Organization Chiba east hospital, Dep. Neurology)