multiple sclerosis overview

multiple sclerosis overview

Introduction
  The Human Race has been struggling with Multiple Sclerosis for Decades. Up to the early nineteenth century, people were not familiar with medical ideas, they relied on superstitions and the wisdom of the elderly, however, once scientific methods were used, Multiple sclerosis was one of the first diseases to be described scientifically. It was first diagnosed in the year 1849. Nowadays, Multiple Sclerosis which is also known as MS is widely spread in specific areas; actually it is the most common progressive disabling neurological condition among young adults. Many scientists tried do understand this disease deeply in order to help people deal with it and be cured. However, unfortunately, like most diseases that attack the central nervous system, MS is yet not fully understood by physicians. It is quite astonishing that no virus has been isolated as the cause of MS.
  Although still mysterious, Many facts are now Known to us, and help us correlate with the disease as much as we can, and avoid the pain as much as we can. In this assignment, I would like to present in a simple way some of the revealed secrets of Multiple Sclerosis, to emphasis the threat that this disease present to us as the human race. To be specific, I divided the assignment to several sections, each dealing with a different dimension of the disease.
Anatomy:
To best describe and understand the nature of the disease multiple sclerosis, we have to illustrate and understand the anatomy behind it. Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord. The central nervous system is made up primarily of neurons, which transmit electro-chemical signals to and from the CNS.
The neuron consists of a cell body with branching dendrites which receive signals. It also has a projection, the AXON, which conducts signals. At the other end are the axon terminals which transmit signals across a synapse.
The Axon is coated by the myelin...