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MS:functional change in brain as cause of cognitive disorder

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 2:16 am
by MSUK
Multiple Sclerosis: functional change in brain as cause of cognitive disorders

Over the course of the disease, multiple sclerosis is very often combined with a deteriorating memory and attention deficits.

Researchers at the University Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the MedUni Vienna have now demonstrated by means of a meta-analysis of functional image data that increased activations in the involuntary attention system in the brain are responsible for these disorders in MS patients...... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/cognition