Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders: From Diagnosis to Treatment
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurodegenerative Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 2424
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS), with an onset between 20 and 40 years and a higher prevalence in women. Diagnosis of MS is based on the integration of clinical, imaging and laboratory findings, and the exclusion of alternative disorders remains crucial. As the armamentarium of disease-modifying treatments (DMT) has broadened, robust diagnosis in the early phase of the disease has become increasingly critical.
Studies published in this Special Issue of Brain Science will focus on the diagnosis and treatment of MS and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD). Authors are invited to submit cutting-edge research and reviews related to MS and NMOSD including the following topics: epidemiology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, new advances in MRI, body fluid biomarkers, treatment algorithms, Patients Reported Outcomes (PRO) and quality of life.
Submissions should be based on Real-World Data (RWD) and Real-World Evidence (RWE) and its impact and relevance in daily clinical practice.
Dr. Liliana Patrucco
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multiple sclerosis
- NMOSD
- diagnosis
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