Multiple sclerosis (MS) has long been considered a demyelinating disease, with the accumulation of plaque in the brain and spinal cord appearing to parallel disease progression. More recently, axonal ...

Dark rimmed spots, representing ongoing inflammation, may be a hallmark of more disabling forms of multiple sclerosis. Credit: Reich lab, NIH/NINDS Chronic active lesions -- dark-rimmed spots ...

DALLAS – March 2, 2006 – Plaques that form around the nerve cells of people with multiple sclerosis are apparently what disable people with the disease. But partly developed reparative cells within ...

A 29 year-old woman presented with loss of coordination affecting the right arm and leg. Multiple Sclerosis (MS): (Left and Middle) Flair axial MRIs; (Right) T1-weighted with gadolinium (GAD) axial ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) — Researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered a molecule linked to the body’s immune response to Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis, foreshadowing the ...

"Seventeen of the patients in our study had brain pathology available, all of whom had findings typical of multiple sclerosis. Immunopathological phenotyping was performed in 13 patients, all of whom ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, immune-mediated, neurodegenerative condition that results in progressive accumulation of disability over the course of the disease. MS presents heterogeneously, ...