Tehran University of Medical Sciences Current Journal of Neurology 2717-011X 15 2 2016 04 05 85 91 EN Majid Ghasemi Neuroscience Research Center AND Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, ‎Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran‎ 2015 10 30 2016 03 14 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) misdiagnosis has many broad implications for the patient and the neurologist. Potentially curative treatments exist for certain ALS mimic syndromes, but delay in starting these therapies may have an unfavorable effect on outcome. Hence, it is important to exclude similar conditions. In this review, we discuss some of the important mimics of ALS. https://ijnl.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijnl/article/view/873 https://ijnl.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijnl/article/download/873/277