Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a chronic neurological disease that impacts the brain, spinal cord ... This process, known as demyelination, leaves neurons exposed, eventually leading to lesioning ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These findings, published in Science, provide a window into the early disease ... demyelination. One key player identified ...

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 ...