August 1, 2022 News by Hawken Miller Project Aims to ‘Bridge the Gap’ in Care Disparities for Latinos With MS When Sarah Garcia was diagnosed with the relapsing-remitting form of multiple sclerosis (MS) at age 13, she didnāt know any other young Latino women with the neurodegenerative disorder. Garcia grew up in a tight-knit Hispanic community in Socorro, Texas, near El Paso. Most of her doctors were white,…
May 28, 2021 Columns by Ed Tobias How Do You Define an MS Cure? “Why aren’t researchers doing more to find a cure for multiple sclerosis?” “Why isn’t more effort and money devoted to this?” I regularly read comments like these after I write a column about a new disease-modifying therapy (DMT) that’s either being tested or has just been approved. Some, like Multiple…
May 28, 2020 Columns by Jennifer (Jenn) Powell Words to Live by: ‘I Am Fine’ “I am fine.” Three words I know as rote. I say them frequently and without hesitation. I utter them as much for others as I do for myself. My reality is too much for most. At times it is too much for me. This packaged response is almost expected. And…
January 24, 2020 Columns by John Connor The Mind-Body Interface Well, this is one way of showing that I attended first-year philosophy seminars: Draw on the thoughts of Plato and Aristotle, then leap two millennia to Descartes. I never studied history, but I’m actually far more comfortable with it! Also, I don’t think I’ve ever built a column based on…
January 20, 2020 News by Ana Pena PhD Being Bilingual May Help to Delay Cognitive Decline in MS, Study Suggests An ability to speak more than one language may help to protect people with multiple sclerosis (MS) against the cognitive decline caused by the disease, new research suggests. The study, “Multiple sclerosis and bilingualism: Some initial findings,” showed that MS patients who speak two languages (bilingual speakers)…
January 6, 2020 News by Joana Carvalho, PhD Language Classes Promote Brain Health and Life Quality in RRMS Patients, Study Finds Learning a second language can bolster the health-related quality of life and mental well-being of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) by working to expand areas of the brain involved in language and damaged by MS, especially in early disease stages, a study suggests. These findings were reported in the…
November 15, 2018 Columns by Jennifer (Jenn) Powell Losing Words Through Dysarthria Is Hard for This Word Nerd I have always prided myself on my smarts. I excelled in college, where I realized my love for learning. I enjoy conversing with others, and I make a concerted effort to expand my horizons. I have never shied away from an opportunity to make anotherās acquaintance. Be it current…