For people with MS, tremors are usually caused by brain lesions (specifically in the cerebellum) and damaged areas, called plaques, along the nerve pathways that are involved with coordinating ...

Such plaques are an indicator of Alzheimer's disease and previously only could be verified with brain scans or spinal taps. Brier, Cross and their colleagues recruited 100 patients with MS to take ...

But the biggest, most important value of PEMF therapy in MS is to decrease inflammation. If you get enough inflammation, you get enough tissue damage, you get what's called plaque. And that's why ...

MS involves the immune system damaging myelin — a substance that surrounds and protects nerve fibers. Damaged areas of myelin are referred to as plaques or lesions. Demyelinating lesions can ...

The name multiple sclerosis refers to scars (scleroses—better known as plaques or lesions) particularly in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord, which is mainly composed of myelin.