Understanding and Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Brain CT scan (illustrative image).
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
2 min
Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease affecting the central nervous system by attacking the protective sheath of neurons.
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The defense system supposed to protect the organism against external aggressions turns against its own cells and attacks them for reasons that are still poorly understood.
What care for patients?
Where is the research?
Prof. Jean Pelletier,
Head of the Department of Neurology and Inflammatory Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord at the
CHU de la Timone
in Marseille.
Chairman of the medico-scientific council of the
ARSEP Foundation
.
Dr Ndiaga Matar Gaye,
Neurologist at the Neurological Clinic of
the National University Hospital Center of Fann
in Dakar, teacher-researcher at the Faculty of Medicine of
the University Cheikh Anta Diop
in Dakar in Senegal.
Gwendoline Michenet
, volunteer at the ARSEP Foundation, Foundation for research assistance on multiple sclerosis.
Municipal councilor for disability in
Nanteuil-lès-Meaux
.
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