Category Archives: MS Treatment

When Halloween season hits, there are suddenly rich and decadent sweets all over the place: getting swapped around at school, sitting on every desk at work, looking tempting in your own front hallway, just waiting for trick-or-treaters. Trying to abstain in the name of being healthy just isn't always worth it. Continue reading →

Abstract Addiction neuroscience models posit that recurrent drug use increases reactivity to drug-related cues and blunts responsiveness to natural rewards, propelling a cycle of hedonic dysregulation that drives addictive behavior. Here, we assessed whether a cognitive intervention for addiction, Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE), could restructure reward responsiveness from valuation of drug-related reward back to valuation of natural reward. Before and after 8 weeks of MORE or a support group control, prescription opioid users (N = 135) viewed opioid and natural reward cues while an electroencephalogram biomarker of target engagement was assessed Continue reading →

Considered untreatable until the early 1990s, multiple sclerosis (MS) has benefited in recent decades from huge progress in developing treatments for people with relapsing MS, the most common form of the condition at the point of diagnosis. But there are many people living with the progressive forms of MS who face increasing disability and still have very few, if any, treatment options. Thats why the MS Society is now focusing its attention on finding effective treatments for everyone with MS. Continue reading →

Researchers have identified a protein on the surface of cells that cause MS and have used antibodies as an effective treatment for the condition in mice. A study has identified a specific subgroup of T cells that are a causation of multiple sclerosis (MS) Continue reading →

Editors note: This is the third story in a three-part report examining the question, Is rituximab a reasonable alternative treatment for MS?, which was a topic discussed at this years Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS). Continue reading →

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In June the F.D.A. cleared two more treatments for those who want a little muscle without the, er, heavy lifting. One is truSculpt Flex, which pumps up muscle via electrical current, which is similar in principle to the ab belts of those late-night infomercials except it has electrodes that can work on eight areas simultaneously Continue reading →

Keith Byrne says that when he was first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the age of 31, he thought it was a death sentence. Now, almost five years later, he has learned to live with the condition and even made some positive changes that would possibly never have happened had he not received the diagnosis Continue reading →

The Panacea Charitable Trust has awarded the Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire MS Therapy Centre a grant towards the provision of nursing services of 15,000. The Panacea Charitable Trusts grants fund supports a broad range of initiatives and recipients in Bedfordshire, providing a range of valuable work and support in the area. Based at Bradbury House in Bedford, the MS Therapy Centre was set up in 1983 to aid those with Multiple Sclerosis. Continue reading →

The first time Jennifer Hindieh saw Alexander Najman, she wished he would go away. Instead, after bumming a Marlboro off her in September 2011 at Long Island University, he stuck around and tried to strike up a conversation. I was lost in thought, she said. Continue reading →