Scientists interviewed 17 patients who reported feeling unmoored by a disease that has stripped away their sense of control ...

SCIENTISTS have ranked the worst types of pain people can experience – including childbirth, gunshot wounds and a slipped disk. Unsurprisingly, labour pains ranked pretty high in terms of ...

The menopausal transition may represent an inflection point for worsening of multiple sclerosis (MS) in women.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most widespread ... This diagnosis is often based on the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), which measures MS disability. Despite a lack of noticeable ...

It is important to realize that both disease activity and current therapies can influence brain volume. Brain volume can transiently increase with the inflammation and edema that are associated ...

Researchers don’t yet fully understand what causes multiple sclerosis (MS) but believe it may develop from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Identifying these factors can help ...

Independent of MS disability scores (i.e., the Expanded Disability Status Scale [EDSS]), fatigue reduces health-related quality of life in per-sons with MS (Forbes et al.; Merkelbach, Sittinger ...

Once they rip your chest open, stop your heart and have you on a machine for four hours as they’re operating on you, you come out of that just writhing in pain.” Multiple sclerosis is a ...

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites ...