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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Part I: MS: Understanding the Disease -- 1: What Is MS? A First Overview -- 1.1 Jennifer's Story -- 1.2 First Things First: A Few Facts and Figures About MS -- 1.3 How the Central Nervous System Is Structured: Anatomy -- 1.3.1 The Central Nervous System: Brain and Spinal Cord -- 1.3.2 Corpus Callosum and Spinal Cord -- 1.4 Immune System and its Influence on the Central Nervous System: The Consequences -- 1.4.1 When the Body Attacks Itself: Autoimmune Disease |
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1.4.2 Nerve Cell: Dendrites, Axon and its Sheath, the Myelin -- 1.4.3 Short Circuit in the Nervous System and Its Consequences -- 1.4.4 Iceberg Model: Disease Activity and Inflammatory Activity -- 1.5 How Multiple Sclerosis Manifests Itself: MS Relapse and Typical Symptoms -- 1.5.1 "Typical" MS Symptoms -- 1.5.2 MS Can Be Overlooked at First -- 1.6 How the Disease Can Run Its Course -- 2: Do I Really Have MS? -- 2.1 The Path to Diagnosis -- 2.1.1 Important Diagnostic Criteria: Spatial and Dissemination in Time -- 2.2 What Tests Are Used to Detect MS: Methods |
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2.2.1 Questions About Questions: What the Anamnesis Can Do -- 2.2.2 When Your Doctor Swings the Hammer: The Neurological Examination -- 2.2.3 Measuring the "Cable Run" Electrically: The "EPs" -- 2.2.4 For the Earliest Possible Detection: The MRI -- 2.2.5 More Than Just Water: CSF Examination and Oligoclonal Bands -- 2.2.6 CIS: The Clinically Isolated Syndrome -- 2.2.7 Changed Diagnostic Criteria Since 2017 -- 3: A Trip into Our Immune System -- 3.1 The Players in Our Immune System: Lymphocytes, Antibodies and Others |
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3.1.1 The Stem Cell in the Bone Marrow: The "Mother" of the Immune System -- 3.1.2 The Lymphoid and the Myeloid Progenitor Cell -- 3.1.3 The White Blood Cells: "The Police" in the Blood -- 3.1.4 The Innate Immune System: Granulocytes, Monocytes and Macrophages -- 3.1.5 The Acquired Immune System: T and B Lymphocytes -- 3.1.6 Friend or Foe: The Maturation Process of T Lymphocytes and Immunological Imprinting -- 3.1.7 The B Lymphocytes and the Perfect Defence -- 3.1.8 The Phagocytes: "Big Eaters" -- 3.1.9 T Lymphocyte Activation: Here We Go! |
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3.1.10 The Counterparts: The Regulatory T Lymphocytes -- 3.1.11 B Lymphocyte Activation, Plasma Cells and Custom-Made Antibodies -- 3.1.12 Reminder: The Memory Cell -- 3.2 The Inflammatory Attack Against the Nervous System -- 3.2.1 Activated T Lymphocytes Invade the Brain -- 3.2.2 T Lymphocytes in Imbalance: The T-Regulatory Cells Are Weakening -- 3.2.3 The Attack Against the Myelin: Common Cause with the B Lymphocytes -- 3.2.4 B-Cell Nests: A New Discovery -- 4: Why MRI? -- 4.1 My MRI Report: Not a Closed Book! -- 4.2 Anatomical Terms You Should Know |
| Summary |
The book provides competent assistance to all those affected by Multiple Sclerosis to better understand the disease and educates them about current diagnostic methods and treatment approaches. With independent information, the guidebook provides the key to a self-determined life with the disease. Complex medical facts such as the malfunctioning immune system or MRI findings are explained in understandable words and accompanying drawings. This companion also raises awareness beyond conventional medicine to take into account important influencing environmental factors. The author provides answers to the many questions that are asked again and again in the doctors practices and cannot always be answered to this extent and with this clarity due to time restrictions. For this reason, it is a highly helpful tool to both MS practitioner and patient |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 11, 2023) |
| Subject |
Multiple sclerosis -- Popular works
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Multiple sclerosis -- Diagnosis -- Popular works
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Multiple sclerosis -- Treatment -- Popular works
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Multiple sclerosis.
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Multiple sclerosis -- Diagnosis.
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Multiple sclerosis -- Treatment.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783662675403 |
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3662675404 |
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