article_snippet.sent: Steele, a former Dane County deputy, was diagnosed with the progressive neurodegenerative disease last June.
article_snippet.sent: His lawyer, Jessa Nicholson, said that Andrew Steele can still walk and that Andrew Steele speech has been affected by Andrew Steele ALS, but that otherwise Andrew Steele was doing well.
article_snippet.sent: his ALS does not affect the brains of most people who are diagnosed with the disease, but Andrew Steele said about 20 per cent experience dementia.
article_snippet.sent: Andrew Steele wrote that Andrew Steele has suffered damage to Andrew Steele hippocampus, the emotional center of the brain, causing poor impulse control and loss of memory.
article_snippet.sent: Andrew Steele frontal lobe was also damaged, which can cause loss of inhibition, personality changes and loss of the ability to conform Andrew Steele conduct to the law.
highlights_snippet.sent: Andrew Steele, 40, claims that the terminal disease affected Andrew Steele brain .
  