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...
Radiologically Isolated Syndrome
March 23, 2022
Prodromal multiple sclerosis is being discussed on blogs, twitter and among patients and families. They often discuss symptoms like fatigue, headache, poor sleep quality and decreased concentration. Multiple sclerosis experts have also been interested in these symptoms since we know environmental factors are important in risk of developing multiple sclerosis. We know that having mononucleosis and therefore Epstein Barr virus at a later age, adolescent obesity, smoking, low vitamin D levels,...
