Participants: Rodolfo Balzarotti, Research Director of the William Congdon Foundation; Giorgio Cerati, Psychiatrist and Member of the Committee on Mental Health in the Lombardy region; Mario Melazzini, Councillor for Productive Activities, Research and Innovation of the Lombardy Region, President of AriSLA, President of Aurora Foundation of the NeMo Sud Clinical Centre in Messina and Scientific Director of the NeMo Clinical Centre in Milan; Silvia Spagnoli, wife of Ugo who is suffering from ALS. Introduced by Paola Marenco, Responsible for the Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit of the Niguarda Hospital and Vice-President of Associazione Medicina e Persona.