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Researchers demonstrated individual functional connectivity patterns using structural data from weighted imaging and magnetoencephalography to predict neurologic disease trajectories.

High alcohol consumption can contribute to more severe neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis — and smoking may increase risk for disease development, new research suggests.

Serum neurofilament light chain and glial fibrillary acidic protein levels can help improve outcome predictions in multiple sclerosis — and are linked to relapse risk after treatment discontinuation.

Keto diet helps people with multiple sclerosis reduce disability, improve quality of life - A recent study suggests that a ketogenic diet might be safe for people with multiple sclerosis.

Disease modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis, especially B-cell depleting drugs, are associated with a reduced humoral response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, new research suggests.

Among patients with multiple sclerosis receiving assisted reproductive therapy, risk for relapse is increased only in those not treated with disease modifying therapy, new research suggests.

Relapse rates dropped to zero after an intensive regimen of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant, but improvement is greater with lower baseline disability.

The potent, once-daily oral BTK inhibitor tolebrutinib showed encouraging safety and efficacy results in patients with multiple sclerosis through 72 weeks in a new long-term extension of a phase 2b trial.

Spinal atrophy observed on MRI correlates with progression to secondary progressive MS when other signs may not be evident, new research shows.

Paramagnetic rim lesions on MRI show a high specificity for a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis; and higher numbers of the lesions are associated with worse disability, new research suggests.