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Myelin-Making Cells May Help to Improve Learning, Reports The Scientist

October 30, 2014

A new study shows that myelin-making cells may do more than insulate nerve fibers - they may be important in how new motor skills (like riding a bike) are learned.  These experiments, which the team is planning to continue, may eventually yield a new target for improving mobility and rehabilitation in people affected by MS. Co-author Ben Emery, PhD (then at the University of Melbourne) is now funded by the National MS Society to study myelin repair.  Read more

Read more about Dr. Emery’s research and other newly funded Society grants.
 

About Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are leading to better understanding and moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million people worldwide.

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