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Good question Bob n here is your answer.

Revimmune trials are just like LDN. Just got to find someone willing to RX it for you. I was lucky with both.

So JH is doing the off label treatment, but are going to battle against the insurance company to get it covered. They have clinical data vs LDN having nothing.

The FDA is allowing off label use under one protocol where the trial is a different one.

Now that the LDN trial is finishing it'll be interesting to see what it does.

Bob-
Sadly, you're right about researchers and neuroplasticity...no money in teaching people how to retrain their brains without drugs. I found several universities in the EU, especially Italy, conducting research on brain plasticity and MS. I'm still hopeful more research will follow.

You're also right about any layman (or woman) being able to read the current books on neuroplasticity and begin practicing at home. That's what we're doing...husband does daily "brain training" with timed math, spatial, word exercises on computer, along with physical training on elliptical machine, weight machine and bike. Music composition and listening keep corpus callosum bridging the lesions in his brain.

So, I still remain hopeful...that's why I'm
-The Aging Cheerleader

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One area where neuroplasticity has shown considerable evidence is with the vestibular system. The brain is able to stop 'listening' to a damaged vestibular nerve and rely more on other input from the body in order to maintain balance. Of course that's plasticity of input, output seems trickier.

It also brings to mind some of the cool brain computer interface (bci) stuff. Like: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/mae/centres/rrc/b ... bcifes.htm

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RuSmolikova wrote:I guess researchers will have to change a bit the MS animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). It can be the reason why they still can´t meet more efficient medication of MS... The first laboratory tests are done on a wrong model...

http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseact ... N=73793349

What about Minocycline? Anyone seen any other updates to the clinical trials in Canada???