3 Distinct Subtypes of Multiple Sclerosis Have Been Identified in Brain Scans 7 APRIL 2021 Symptoms might come and go. Speech could falter. There may be pain, or perhaps loss of senses. Almost certainly, though, a diagnosis of MS brings with itself a future full of uncertainty. Now, we have a new tool that might help to alleviate the latter.
Getting an accurate prognosis of MS early on can help people better prepare for what's to come, but clinical testing can't currently tell clinicians whether or not a specific case will respond well to a particular treatment in the future. A new study conducted by an international team of researchers used artificial intelligence to identify three relatively distinct subtypes of anatomy among brain scans taken from 6,322 patients with MS.