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Daily Minutes: Short informational clips about this topic, usually lasting around a minute or so.

Q & A: Clips featuring viewer questions answered by MS Learn Online experts, also usually around a minute or so.

Feature Presentations: More comprehensive coverage of a topic, usually featuring a variety of experts and/or perspectives. These are usually broken into 2-4 segments lasting 6-10 minutes each.

Daily Minutes - Research

Genes and MS

Researching the Later Stages of MS  Understanding the Disease Process

More Research Daily Minutes Clips

Cell Transplantation Phases of Clinical Trials
Environmental Triggers in MS New Era of MS Treatment
Genetic Statistics Inside One Research Lab
Mechanisms of Myelin Sheath Types of MS Lesions
Multi-Country Clinical Trials Oligodendrocytes
Optical Coherence Tomography Timeline for Oral Therapies
Prolactin Replacing Myelin Sheath
T-Cell Migration Teamwork Among Researchers
Adhesion Molecule Inhibitors What Proteins Could Tell Us
Working Towards Myelin Production Does Testosterone Impact Immune Function?

Q&A - Research

Stem Cell Research

 

What Are My Chances of Getting MS?  Twins and MS

More Research Q & A Clips

Campath Study Numbers of People with MS in Northern States
Mono and MS Triggering Event

Feature Presentations -
Research

The CLIMB Study

 

Downloads: Transcripts (.pdf) Podcast (.mp3)

Topic: This video provides an overview of the
Comprehensive Longitudinal Investigations
at the Brigham Women's Hospital. The study
follows 2,000 people with MS over a 10 year period.

Who? Why? How? - Searching for the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis Part 1

Part One of Two: 13 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)
Book (.pdf)

Topics: Causes of MS; Immunologic theories; Environmental factors; Infectious triggers 

  

Who? Why? How? - Searching for the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis Part 2

Part Two of Two: 14 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)
Book (.pdf)

Topics: Genetic factors; Contributions of the National MS Society to research; Other intriguing leads

 

More Research Feature Presentations

  

National MS Society's Research Program

 Part One of One: 7 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf) Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Types of research funded by the National MS Society; Progress in MS research; The importance of collaboration; Fast Forward

 

MS and the African-American Community: Research, Clinical Trials and Reasons for Hope

Part One of One: 9 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Choosing treatment; Participating in a clinical trial; Genetic studies

 

MS News

Part One of One: 8 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Ampyra; Tysabri; Stem cell research

 

Clinical Trials: Solving One Piece of the MS Puzzle Part 1

Part One: 10 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Basics of clinical trials

Clinical Trials: Solving One Piece of the MS Puzzle Part 2

Part Two: 12 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Advantages of participation; Disadvantages of participation; Perspectives on participation

 

Hormones, Gender and MS Part 1

Part One of Two: 10 minutes
Featuring Nancy Sicotte, MD
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Pregnancy; Menses; Menopause

 

Hormones, Gender and MS Part 2

Part Two of Two: 9 minutes
Featuring Nancy Sicotte, MD
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Gender; Testosterone; Hormone therapy

 

To Repair and Protect: The Future of MS Treatments Part 1

Part One of Three: 16 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf) Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Nervous system damage in MS; Oligodendrocytes; Transcription factors

 

To Repair and Protect: The Future of MS Treatments Part 2

Part Two of Three: 12 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf) Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Repair strategies; International efforts; Inflammatory responses

 

To Repair and Protect: The Future of MS Treatments Part 3

Part Three of Three: 15 minutes
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf) Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Protection of nerve cells; Restoration of brain and spinal cord function

 

Understanding MS Research
Part One of One: 12 minutes Featuring Robert Lisak, MD
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Progress in MS research in the areas of genetics, molecular biology, and the MRI; New happenings in clinical trials; Understanding the many sources of information

   

Health Services Research
Part One of One: 12 minutes Featuring Nicholas La Rocca, PhD
Downloads: Transcript (.pdf)  Podcast (.mp3)

Topics: Defining health services research; What we are learning from health services research; Positive trends