Demyelinating diseases are a group of disorders of the nervous system that involve loss of the myelin sheath that normally surrounds the neurons. Demyelinating diseases can affect both the central ...

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 ...

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 ...

The neurologist explains the link between Guillain-Barre Syndrome and paralysis, and the initial symptoms to watch out for.

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 ...

Damage to myelin, the protective sheath surrounding nerve fibers, impairs the brain's ability to transmit signals efficiently ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP ... Vyvgart Hytrulo works by reducing the level of pathogenic (disease-causing) immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies in your bloodstream.

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

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