This is what it looks like when parasitic worms directly invade your brain
Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...
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What to know about MS lesions on the spinal cord
Scans often identify MS lesions in the periventricular white matter of the brain, the optic nerves, or the spinal cord. A contrast MRI can help ... nerves send impulses. Without myelin, the ...
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New imaging confirms ocrelizumab’s impact on lesion activity in multiple sclerosis
Ocrelizumab significantly reduced the number and volume of cortical lesions associated with multiple sclerosis at 120 weeks, ...
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Short-term lesion dynamics on MRI predict longer-term disease activity in MS
A group from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, has used mathematical modeling of MRI intensity change over time to examine the processes that lead to white matter damage in multiple ...
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Tolebrutinib particularly beneficial in patients with MS who have more MRI lesions
Tolebrutinib had the most protective effect against disability worsening at 6 months in patients with multiple sclerosis who ...
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MRI mapping identifies a brain circuit for creativity
Fox, MD, Ph.D., who founded and leads the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, and helped develop the techniques of coordinate and lesion network mapping employed in this work. "Some people with ...
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Slowly expanding MS lesions linked to myelin damage in brain
In MS, slowly expanding lesions were linked to more myelin loss in brain regions of damage and in normal-appearing brain ...
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MRI Signature Detects MS Damage Weeks in Advance
Reich, M.D., Ph.D., both at NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), combined repeated MRI imaging with brain-tissue analysis, including gene expression, to track the ...