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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