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The Multiple Sclerosis Center provides comprehensive care for adults and children with MS and related diseases through a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach. We offer the latest diagnostic and therapeutic services, and work toward maximizing function, improving quality of life and increasing independence for each patient.
The MS Center offers the most current treatment protocols available for multiple sclerosis, including approved and novel investigational therapies. The Center includes physician-scientists in immunobiology, pathology, diagnostic radiology, computational biology and genetics to engage in basic research and clinical trials to advance both the understanding of the disorder and continually improve treatment options.
The Center has participated in pivotal trials in many of the currently approved drugs for MS, including glatiramer acetate (Copaxone®), interferon, including Avonex®, mitoxantrone (Novantrone®), and natalizumab (Tysabri®), as well as oral disease-modifying therapy, fingolimod (Gilenya®) and BG-12 (Tecfidera®).
View the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neurology video Immune Cells in the MS Nervous System.
Multiple sclerosis or MS is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that causes demyelination, or damage to the protective coating of nerve cells, of the central nervous system which includes the brain and spinal cord. There have been major advancements in the treatment of MS that can prevent exacerbations in early disease, though new treatments are needed for the minority of patients that go on to progressive disease.
Read MoreIn this video, Dr. Longbrake discusses Yale Medicine’s work on behalf of people with MS, including the advantages of early diagnosis and a review of treatment options in all stages
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