Multiple sclerosis may quietly damage the brain for years before symptoms appear, and scientists can now see it coming.

For decades, multiple sclerosis (MS) has been defined primarily by its symptoms, rather than its underlying biology. Now, a ...

What are the often invisible cognitive consequences of multiple sclerosis? Maureen van Dam mapped these out during her ...

Researchers developed a mouse model of multiple sclerosis that captures the features of progression independent of relapse ...

Researchers have found that new myelin-making cells are constantly being made in the brain and spinal cord, even in the ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 2.3 million people worldwide. Approximately 80% of people with MS have inflammation in the cerebellum, the part of the brain that ...

Multiple sclerosis, a complex neurological condition affecting nearly 3 million people worldwide, has long been characterized by its elusiveness. Even as medical imaging technology has advanced ...

Now, by analyzing thousands of proteins found in the blood, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have created what they view as the clearest picture yet of when the ...

The immune system's reaction to the common Epstein-Barr virus can ultimately damage the brain and contribute to multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new research from Karolinska Institutet, published ...

In the human brain, neurofilament light chain (NfL, shown in brown) is seen in brain cells and the neural wires that connect them. UCSF researchers found NfL in the bloodstream of patients who would ...