In this country, motor neuron disease is known as amyotrophic lateral schlerosis (ALS) or Charcot’s disease.
I think most of us would know it by Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Lou Gehrig's disease. One of my basketball friends, a retired police chief in his late 50s, died of it. He was playing with us at the end of our indoor season in May (rec ball, in the HS gym), was fully incapacitated by November, and died in late January.