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Month: January 2026
Emotional Release
Happy Saturday, y’all! I hope you are doing well and that you are ready to have a great weekend. Not much new has happened during the week, and I am still trying to deal with life’s challenges as they are thrown at me. The kitty crew is doing great and thriving, which is amazing. The…
EBV and B cells. Here is the causal mechanism?
Tweet Kim H, Schneider M, Raach Y, Karypidis P, Roux J, Perdikaris G, Holdermann S, Kulsvehagen L, Lecourt AC, Narr K, Sankowski R, Diebold M, Bartoszek-Kandler E, Kapfhammer JP, Zimmer G, Pröbstel AK, Prinz M, Kappos L, Sanderson NSR, Derfuss T. Myelin antigen capture in the CNS by B cells expressing EBV latent membrane protein…
Guest Voice: The VIP of my MS support team? A wall to lean on.
Before multiple sclerosis (MS) entered my life, I never gave ordinary objects a second thought. Walls, for example, were just there, holding up pictures, catching the occasional flying shoe thrown by Mom, or marking where furniture should stop. I didn’t greet the walls or thank them. I certainly didn’t depend on them. Like many things…
Vision & Values
By Stacie Prada I created a vision board years ago that included images of women doing yoga poses I couldn’t do. I attended yoga classes weekly, and I loved how it combined calming breathwork with some of the gymnastics, athleticism, … Continue reading → Source: blog.mymsaa.org
Machine learning model can predict PIRA in first years of MS diagnosis
A new machine learning tool can now help predict whether people newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) will experience disability worsening that occurs even in the absence of relapses. According to a recent study, these artificial intelligence algorithms can identify the risk of “progression independent of relapse activity,” or PIRA, using simple clinical data typically…
ECTRIMS STATS
Tweet So neuros are invited to learn about statistics. So whilst they are off to Naples to learn, as you tuck into your frozen pizza (it’s almost Naples after all) you too can learn some statistics which will help to determine how much you log-in to your memory banks that will help you to read…
New online fitness program targets US veterans with MS, mobility issues
Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) — a congressionally chartered veterans organization open to all military service members with multiple sclerosis (MS) — has launched a new, free, online fitness and wellness program that offers adaptive, expert-led classes for individuals with mobility challenges. The initiative is designed specifically for veterans living with diseases such as MS,…
Living with MS makes me a lot like Scarlett, our pet corn snake
I wrote a few years ago about a snake we kept that temporarily went missing. It was a wild snake that we released back into the wild because that was the right thing to do. The kids were quite taken with it, however, so we obtained a captive-raised corn snake to keep as a pet,…
EBV can trick the immune system to attack myelin in at-risk individuals
A history of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) appears to alter the immune systems of people with specific genetic traits, causing their own cells to mistakenly flag brain proteins as dangerous threats, according to a new study. This discovery offers insight into how these risk factors — viral infection and genetics — interact to contribute to…