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Cutting Edge Brain Imaging Offers Hope to MS Patients in NC

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Friday, November 12, 2010   

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the number one disease that causes disability in young adults. Hope for curing the 400,000 Americans with MS does not lie only in the medicines researchers develop, however. Major advancements are being made in brain-imaging technology that allows researchers to better understand the disease and how medicines impact it inside the human body.

Dr. Alayar Kangarlu, an associate professor of neurobiology at Columbia University, is speaking at the Carolinas Consortium on Multiple Sclerosis Saturday. He compares cutting-edge MRI brain scanning to using a better telescope to see outer space.

"The more powerful you make your telescope, the more you'll be able to see. The more you see, the more you wonder, and then you come up with theories, and then you put your theories to the test, and eventually you come up with a solution."

Most people are diagnosed with MS between the ages of 20 and 50, although individuals as young as 2 and as old as 75 have developed it.

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the central nervous system. There is no cure, but medicines are available to help patients handle the symptoms. Kangarlu says curing the disease using medical research and MRI technology is possible, eventually.

"In medicine and science, we don't ever say never. We have made great strides toward helping. That's exactly how things happen in science. Nothing really happens overnight."

Kangarlu is a keynote speaker at the conference. The annual event is hosted by the National MS Society.

The Carolinas Consortium on Multiple Sclerosis will be held Nov. 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. at the Westin Hotel, 601 S. College St. The event is open to the public; registration is $15 and includes two education workshops and the keynote luncheon.





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