Myelin, the protective sheath around nerve fibers, plays a crucial role in brain communication. It ensures fast and efficient ...

The brain receives huge amounts of information ... Thus, patients with demyelinating diseases suffer from various neurological symptoms. The representative demyelinating disease, and perhaps ...

New research highlights a critical link between antibodies produced against Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and the development of ...

even in WM disease. Additionally, improved imaging techniques would allow for the visualization of early inflammatory cortical demyelination and provide a better understanding of the whole brain ...

Demyelination affects the brain and spinal cord in MS. Sometimes ... than people who had spinal cord involvement early in their disease course. However, the implications of the prognostic value ...

Demyelinating diseases are a group of disorders of the ... and the maintenance of lipid homeostasis is essential for brain health. Bogie and colleagues explore the mechanisms that regulate lipid ...

These findings, published in Science, provide a window into the early disease ... demyelination. One key player identified was a specific type of astrocyte, one of the support cell types in the ...

MS is a neurological disease. It causes the immune system ... Sometimes, a person may have demyelination on the brain or spinal cord before receiving a diagnosis of MS. Both radiologically ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is an immune-mediated neuropathy that affects the peripheral motor and sensory nerves. The symptoms are of a slowly progressive numbness and tingling ...

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 ...