{"id":1272,"date":"2026-01-28T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/disability-not-age-drives-cognitive-impairment-in-ms-adults-study\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:00:17","slug":"disability-not-age-drives-cognitive-impairment-in-ms-adults-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/disability-not-age-drives-cognitive-impairment-in-ms-adults-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability, not age, drives cognitive impairment in MS adults: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/01\/28\/disability-drives-cognitive-impairment-older-ms-adults-study\/\" title=\"Disability, not age, drives cognitive impairment in MS adults: Study\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Brain_700x350-800x400.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"The human brain is pictured inside a person&#039;s head.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"157989\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Older adults with multiple sclerosis (MS) show a higher prevalence and severity of cognitive impairment \u2014 particularly affecting information processing speed and memory \u2014 than younger patients, a new study reports. However, age was not directly associated with cognitive impairment, the results showed. Instead, greater disability emerged as the main predictor of such problems in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/01\/28\/disability-drives-cognitive-impairment-older-ms-adults-study\/\">Disability, not age, drives cognitive impairment in MS adults: Study<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/01\/28\/disability-drives-cognitive-impairment-older-ms-adults-study\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older adults with multiple sclerosis (MS) show a higher prevalence and severity of cognitive impairment \u2014 particularly affecting information processing speed and memory \u2014 than younger patients, a new study reports. However, age was not directly associated with cognitive impairment, the results showed. Instead, greater disability emerged as the main predictor of such problems in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}