September 23, 2022 Columns by Ed Tobias My Wife Says I Should Follow My Own (MS) Advice I have to be honest: I havenāt always been honest. I donāt always practice what I preach. My wife called me out on that as we watched an interview I did recently about multiple sclerosis on Montel Williams’ podcast. āYou should follow your own advice,ā she told me.
April 8, 2022 Columns by Jamie Hughes ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay,’ and Thatās OK In the South, we have a tendency to cram words together to create a single gigantic one, a kind of linguistic Pangea, if you will. The one Iāve been using a lot lately is āusetacould,ā a condensed form of the phrases āI used to be able toā and āI once…
January 4, 2022 News by Marisa Wexler, MS Being a Lifelong Musician May Protect Brain From Damage of Aging Being a lifelong musician can help protect certain tracts of the brain’s white matter from damage during aging, potentially warding off conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, or dementia for years. That’s according to the study “Effects of Lifelong Musicianship on White Matter Integrity…
June 14, 2021 News by Steve Bryson, PhD Scientists Discover Enzyme Needed for Activating Myelin Repair The enzyme TET1, which is progressively lost with age, is essential to activate genes needed to repair myelin ā the sheath around nerve cells that is damaged in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) ā a study in mice has found. The…
June 19, 2020 News by Forest Ray PhD CMSC Meeting Focuses on Challenges, Solutions to Quality of Life Issues Nearly 3,000 multiple sclerosis (MS) healthcare providers and researchers Ā convened recently to share their findings regarding the latest developments in the diagnosis and treatment of MS. However, unlike past meetings, this year’s 34th Annual Meeting of theĀ Consortium of MS Centers (CMSC) took place online. Virtual presentations covered the…
May 14, 2020 News by Marta Figueiredo, PhD Progressive MS Linked to Faster Retinal Atrophy, Study Shows People with progressive forms of multiple sclerosisĀ (MS) have faster and disease-modifying therapy (DMT)-resistant retinal atrophy (thinning), compared to those with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), a study shows. Data also highlighted that the thickness of deeper layers of the retina could be used as potential biomarkers of neurodegeneration in…
February 11, 2020 News by Ana Pena PhD Mavenclad May Be Added to RRMS Treatments on Quebec’s Public Health Plan Immune cells have an inflammation ‘switch’ that involves the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway, and targeting it may prevent or even reverse the chronic inflammation seen in diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) and in conditions associated with aging, an early study suggests.Ā …
April 26, 2019 News by Marisa Wexler, MS Cellular Senescence Implicated in MS Development, Study Suggests Cellular senescence ā the process of aging at the cellular level ā may play a role in the development of primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) by limiting the ability of myelin-producing cells (oligodendrocytes) to renew and mature. The study with that finding, “Cellular senescence in progenitor…
March 7, 2019 Columns by Jennifer (Jenn) Powell My Second Act: Turning 50 with SPMS If a cat has nine lives then I have at least twice as many. One day shy of my 50th birthday, my mind runs a vivid montage of years past. I close my eyes and I am there. I feel a heavy melancholy as the movie rolls. I see…
March 4, 2019 Columns by Debi Wilson Is My Memory Loss Due to MS, Aging, or Something Else? My memory is spotty at times. I utter phrases like, āWhat was I looking for?ā more often than I care to admit. I attribute my memory lapses to my multiple sclerosis (MS) brain lesions. But is my assumption accurate? What if it is age-related or…
March 1, 2019 News by Jonathan Grinstein #ACTRIMS2019 – Leukocyte Telomere Length Shortening is Predictive of Disability Progression in MS, Study Shows As the protective molecular caps of our genetic information ā called telomeres ā become shorter in certain immune cells, the extent of multiple sclerosisĀ (MS) disability progression increases, regardless of age, researchers at theĀ University of California, San FranciscoĀ (UCSF) reported. The findings were presented at the annual…
February 22, 2019 Columns by Jamie Hughes The More Things Change ā¦ An awesome friend of mine at work who is learning to master Spanish as a second language has been using a podcast called “News in Slow Spanish” to increase fluency in conversation and learn cultural nuances. (And this isnāt the first amazing thing sheās done. Homegirl can run…
September 25, 2018 News by Diogo Pinto With Age, Depression Lessens and Quality of Life Improves in MS Patients, Researchers Report A recent study found that elder individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience significantly less severe depressive symptoms and better quality of life than their younger counterparts. The research, āSubjective well-being differs with age in multiple sclerosis: A brief report,ā was published in the journal Rehabilitation Psychology.
November 3, 2017 Columns by John Connor The Weekend The weekend should have started on Friday. My sister-in-law is over from France and there was the first gathering of the clan in a local hostelry. I took the sensible option of staying in as there was an even bigger do at our place on Saturday night. My…
October 30, 2017 News by Patricia Silva, PhD #MSParis2017 – Trial to See if Disease-modifying Therapies Not Necessary in Older MS Patients A clinical study now enrolling people with progressive or relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) will examine the feasibility of older patients stopping use of disease-modifying therapies if they have had no relapses for a number of years. John Corboy,Ā with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, presented the study at…
September 6, 2017 News by Janet Stewart, MSc Older Women with MS Age Better Than Their Male Counterparts, Canadian Survey Finds Older men with multiple sclerosis (MS) have more harmful lifestyles than older women with the disease, concludesĀ theĀ Canadian Survey of Health, Lifestyle and Aging with Multiple Sclerosis. Treatment for depression could go a long way to promoting more healthy lifestyles for all older MS patients, authors suggest. The study, ā…
December 9, 2016 News by Patricia Silva, PhD Key Myelin Protein, MBP, Seen to Break Down Differently in Brains of MS Patients ResearchersĀ monitoring the decomposition of an abundant brain protein, called myelin basic protein (MBP), discovered that this protein breaks down differently in people withĀ multiple sclerosis (MS) than it does in those without the disease, particularly in two surface regions, and that difference may be the trigger for immune reactions and myelin…