"Pressure like burning pain in the trunk-often called the ‘MS hug', is often noted and caused by lesions in the spinal cord." "Although the most common ages for MS diagnosis are between the ages of 20 ...

Royalty Pharma has signed a deal to pay Biogen $250m to support the development of its late-stage experimental lupus medication litifilimab. In return, Royalty Pharma will receive undisclosed ...

A Phase 2 clinical trial testing obexelimab in adults with relapsing types of multiple sclerosis is now recruiting ...

The CNS includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves ... This could be the result of demyelinating lesions from MS. There are a variety of causes for an eye twitch in people with MS, such ...

Researchers and neurologists still can’t say with certainty what causes MS. The ultimate cause of MS is damage to myelin, nerve fibers, and neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Together these ...

Experts in Australia and New Zealand have published the first consensus guidelines for the care of adults with MS in those ...

A doctor will monitor to see if any new lesions develop and in which are ... from getting into the brain and spinal cord to cause more damage to the nerves. Since it is thought that MS is driven by ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) induces a pronounced neuroinflammation ... The following acquisition parameters were used for T2W-MRI: spin-echo multi-slices (SEMS); TR = 1,580 ms, TE = 30.55 ms, NE = 1, AVG ...

Objectives Traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord ... sequence of the lesion area was acquired with the following parameters: 20 slices, slice thickness=2.5 mm, in-plane resolution=0.3×0.3 mm 2, ...

Although the increased expression of members of the chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan family, such as neuron-glial antigen 2 (NG2), have been well documented after an injury to the spinal cord ... YL, ...

Bradford B. Worrall, MD, a University of Virginia professor of neurology and public health, says many stroke survivors develop spasticity.