Articles on Medical Diseases and Conditions

The incidence of depression amongst people with Multiple Sclerosis has been a matter of controversy for many years. In the early years of research it was thought that relatively few people with the condition had ‘clinical’ depression, but more recent research indicates that the level of depression is far higher than was previously thought. Recent […]

Research has identified two broad areas where Multiple Sclerosis seems to be involved or has effects that are not so much to do with the mind in general, but with what are more neatly and technically considered as cognitive issues on the one hand, and attitudinal and emotional issues on the other. Cognitive issues are […]

Until a few years ago, the symptoms associated with MS that we discuss in this chapter were often ignored or underplayed by doctors and neurologists. This was, in part, because MS was considered then to produce mainly – often only – physical symptoms directly (and obviously) related to the damage occurring in the nervous system. […]