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I was reading something from Neuroscience Canada's "Brain Repair Program" that said 90% of what we know about the human brain, we've learned in the last 15 years. (I think the author made the statement in 2005)

I'm just speculating now, but I wouldn't mind betting that our knowledge of the brain is increasing exponentially, and has been all along. And the bright side of that is that we seem to be hitting that part ...

My grandson's grand mother on his Dads side has thought for the past 2 years she had MS as she was Dx then. Now they have just discovered she has Myasthenia Gravis. It has allot of the same stuff going on as MS. I had never heard of it till today.This is one time I'm pretty much glad so many first marriages end in divorce as she is not my grandsons biological grandmother any more ...

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Research-2005Nov22.asp

Some more EBV and MS research.

http://www.msif.org/go.rm?id=12984

http://www.msif.org/go.rm?id=11233

http://www.msif.org/go.rm?id=11206

http://www.msif.org/go.rm?id=10128

http://www.msif.org/go.rm?id=12863

http://www.msif.org/go.rm?id=11346

http://www.msif.org/go.rm?id=12416

http://www.msif.org/go.rm?id=11463

EBV certainly appears to be linked with MS in some way or another. ...

Another piece of research linking a virus with a demyelinating disease (a close cousin of MS).

http://www.msif.org/en/research/researc ... entri.html

I suppose if axonal degeneration is becoming a more important area of focus with MS research, it will be important to have the ability to monitor axonal preservation in clinical trials...



Optical coherence tomography: measuring in-vivo axonal survival and neuroprotection in multiple sclerosis and optic neuritis.

Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2005 Dec;16(6):346-50.

Sergott RC.
Department of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review considers the ...

Interesting study that again shows a connection between HHV6/EBV and MS. Probably requires further study though, it always does...



Presence of Epstein-Barr virus and human herpesvirus 6B DNA in multiple sclerosis patients: associations with disease activity.

Acta Neurol Scand. 2005 Dec;112(6):395-402.

Hollsberg P, Kusk M, Bech E, Hansen HJ, Jakobsen J, Haahr S.
Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

Objective - To assess the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and ...

I came across the attached which really shows how little the so called experts know about this disease. It also puts a questionmark over the use of MRIs in drugs trials. What are they really measuring - they are just a snapshot of the poor old brain etc trying its hardest to fight back against this disease.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MS ... sage/21350

just wanted to send this question out to u guys and hopefully i wont be crazy...but this morning i woke up and seemed like i felt mentallly fine..have held up fairly well for still not knowing what is going on and all..but i all of a sudden got the feeling when i got to work and started working a hoorrible feeling of panic and sadness...panic of what will i do with the boys and stuff ...

Here is a link to neurologists who met in Australia. It contains lots of video clips which I can't be bothered to watch at the moment. Would be grateful if someone could tell me what the upshot was?

Bromley

http://www.msaustralia.org.au/publications/video.html