Damage to myelin, the protective sheath surrounding nerve fibers, impairs the brain's ability to transmit signals efficiently ...

1 This is attributed to greater susceptibility of motor and proprioceptive nerve fibers to demyelination because ... to studies of patients with rare diseases. In an observer-blinded comparative ...

The UAB Center for Pediatric-Onset Demyelinating Disease (CPODD) is one of the founding Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Centers of Excellence in the country designated and funded in 2006 by the ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP ... in CIDP because of the rarity and heterogeneity of the disease," ...

The importance of myelin is underscored by the presence of various diseases in which the primary problem is defective myelination. Demyelination is the condition in which preexisting myelin ...

Mikael Simons, MD, a neurologist and researcher at Technical University Munich and the Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases ...

Gene therapy researchers have treated two boys with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD), a demyelinating disease highlighted in the movie “Lorenzo's Oil.” Such individuals are normally ...

The following is a summary of “Conventional MRI-Based Structural Disconnection and Morphometric Similarity Networks and Their ...

The images can show if demyelinating lesions are old, new, or currently active. In addition to diagnosis, an MRI can help monitor disease progression. Although lumbar puncture can’t rule out or ...

“This relatively recent but increasingly significant idea in the field has the potential to address critical questions on detailed mechanisms of neuroinflammatory and demyelinating diseases, such as ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is an immune-mediated neuropathy that affects the peripheral motor and sensory nerves. The symptoms are of a slowly progressive numbness and tingling ...

“This relatively recent but increasingly significant idea in the field has the potential to address critical questions on detailed mechanisms of neuroinflammatory and demyelinating diseases, such as ...