Demyelination affects the brain and spinal cord in MS. Sometimes demyelination causes scarring, often described as plaques. Inflammation, demyelinating changes, scars, and plaques can appear on ...

If you have MS, your body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue around the central nervous system, triggering inflammation that damages the myelin. Demyelination disrupts the flow of ...

Dimika V. Cavalier shares details of her long MS diagnosis journey and the eventual acceptance of her new normal.

MS has classically been thought of as a white ... would allow for the visualization of early inflammatory cortical demyelination and provide a better understanding of the whole brain lesion ...

Demyelinating optic neuritis (DON) is a hallmark feature of multiple sclerosis (MS) and often occurrs as the heralding event of the disease. Optical coherence tomography has revolutionized the ...

MS causes the immune system to mistake the myelin for a foreign body and attacks it, stripping away the layers of insulation. This process, known as demyelination, leaves neurons exposed ...

Multiple sclerosis, the prototype of demyelinating disease in man, is a relapsing-remitting or progressively disabling disease of unknown cause. The first pathological descriptions of the disease ...

The UAB Center for Pediatric-Onset Demyelinating Disease (CPODD) is one of the founding Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Centers of Excellence in the country designated and funded in 2006 by the ...

Myelin, the protective sheath around nerve fibers, plays a crucial role in brain communication. It ensures fast and efficient transmission of electrical signals. When damaged, this insulation breaks ...

Myrobalan's experimental therapy MRO-002 is a GPR17 antagonist that's made to promote myelin repair in people with MS and ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the fatty sheath that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

varicella zoster virus among others), and demyelinating disorders (e.g., MS and acute demyelinating encephalomyelitits). More commonly, however, the term optic neuritis is used as a synonym for ...