What is the best Disease Modifying Therapy for you?
April 15, 2022
With more than a dozen medications that are currently approved for the treatment of MS, how does one choose the best medication for an individual?The spectrum of MS is wide and can vary widely from one person to the other.Several studies have shown that a patient's initial disease course gives us many clues as to how their subsequent disease course is going to be.Early disease charecteristics including -relape rate, symptoms of a relapse, recovery from a relapse, number of lesions on brain and...
Cognitive Testing at the MS Center
April 8, 2022
Here at the Weill Cornell Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Center, we are now offering brief batteries of cognitive testing on all our patients. Cognitive issues are not uncommon in patients with MS.Cognitive testing helps us to see how your brain is functioning.The tests will assess your memory, judgement, thinking, language, and the ability to learn new things.A problem with cognition may range from mild to severe.These tests cannot show the cause of impairment but can help your doctor find out if...
Study Examining MRI correlates of Cognition in MS
April 1, 2022
After one year of administering a cognitive assessment to 157 patients with multiple sclerosis at Weill Cornell Medicine, we found a relationship between a certain lesion type, known as a rim-positive lesion, and cognition. Based on our prior studies, it is thought that this lesion type represents more active disease due to the increased presence of inflammatory cell types. Our data found that approximately 36% of patients had this lesion type on MRI. Of these patients, those who had an...
