Multiple sclerosis in a nutshell

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system with focal demyelination which is most likely caused by an attack by the body’s own defence cells on the myelin sheaths of nerve cells.

The symptoms of MS are complex: visual disturbances, symptoms of paralysis, numbness, double vision, dizziness – to mention just a few of the most important. Multiple sclerosis is thus also called the disease with a thousand faces. The diversity of MS symptoms is an indication that practically all regions of the brain and spinal cord can be affected in this disorder.

Even though MS is still not curable, there are now drugs which can reduce the disease activity and moderate the disease course.