Gene therapy researchers have treated two boys with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD), a demyelinating disease highlighted in the movie “Lorenzo's Oil.” Such individuals are normally ...

Multiple sclerosis, the prototype of demyelinating disease in man, is a relapsing-remitting or progressively disabling disease of unknown cause. The first pathological descriptions of the disease ...

The UAB Center for Pediatric-Onset Demyelinating Disease (CPODD) is one of the founding Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Centers of Excellence in the country designated and funded in 2006 by the ...

1 This is attributed to greater susceptibility of motor and proprioceptive nerve fibers to demyelination because ... to studies of patients with rare diseases. In an observer-blinded comparative ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP ... in CIDP because of the rarity and heterogeneity of the disease," ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is an immune-mediated neuropathy that affects the peripheral motor and sensory nerves. The symptoms are of a slowly progressive numbness and tingling ...

Fatigue is also common. Inflammation is one common cause of damage to myelin, but other things can cause demyelination, including: ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is the most common chronic immune-mediated neuropathy. It affects peripheral nerves and roots. CIDP has no biomarkers. It may be monophasic ...

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is a rare autoimmune disorder where the immune system attacks peripheral nerves, causing ...

Mikael Simons, MD, a neurologist and researcher at Technical University Munich and the Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases ...