Formerly believed to predominantly affect Caucasians, new research indicates that MS actually may hit Blacks the hardest.

Researchers have pinpointed more than two dozen other brain-targeting antibodies, most of which are found in patients with autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. The role these antibodies ...

has found what might be a previously unknown kind of autoimmune disease—one that negatively impacts the central nervous system. In their paper published in Science Translational Medicine ...

Diagnosis Vasculitis of the central ... also be a primary disease (i.e. primary angiitis of the CNS [PACNS]). Table 2 Secondary causes of vasculitis of the central nervous system.

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic and potentially debilitating condition that impacts the central nervous ... but like other autoimmune diseases, the body's immune system attacks its own cells ...

which is an autoimmune disease that causes widespread inflammation in your body Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, which creates complications in your central nervous system Stroke ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. The Mayo Clinic says MS causes the breakdown of the protective covering of nerve fibers, known as ...

The next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis could be tiny pulses of electricity delivered to the ...

A Personal View published in The Lancet Oncology challenges the long-standing perception of metastatic brain cancer, calling ...

During the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD), α-synuclein pathology may originate in peripheral organs and spread to the CNS. Using human tissue samples and multiple approaches in mouse ...

Cite this: Functional Interleukin-17 Receptor A is Expressed in Central Nervous System Glia and Upregulated in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis - Medscape - Apr 01, 2009. 1 Department of ...

Houston Methodist researchers have identified a key protein as a potential therapeutic target for stopping the body's immune system from mistakenly attacking itself, offering new hope for treating ...