Damage from demyelination can develop in the brain and spinal cord. When a damaged area is visible on a scan, it is known as a lesion. Sometimes, people with MS remain in a stable condition ...

Currently, patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) and brain lesions on MRI suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS), are offered a confirmatory MRI scan after 6 months. Researchers in Italy ...

Using an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers have created a four-dimensional brain map that reveals how lesions similar to those seen in human MS form. These findings provide a window ...

Massacesi et al. used MRI to investigate whether azathioprine therapy suppresses the number and accumulation of new brain lesions in patients with MS. This open-label treatment versus baseline ...

Christina Applegate continues to be transparent about her battle with multiple sclerosis, revealing how the disease manifests ...

Therefore, for MS, the use of stem cells may provide a logical solution, since these cells can migrate locally into the areas of white-matter lesions (plaques) and have the potential to support ...

“I have 30 lesions on my brain,” she explained. “My biggest one is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot.” She said that while her vision has not been affected, MS has taken a t ...

There's another form of magnetic therapy called TMS, or Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, to treat the brain ... stem cell production. But the biggest, most important value of PEMF therapy in MS ...

Removing a small part of the brain can be a safe and effective way of stopping them - but if radiologists cannot see the tiny lesions on brain scans, diagnosis, treatment and surgery can be delayed.