Objective. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism-dementia complex is classified as one of the tauopathies. Methods. The total tau, phosphorylated tau, and amyloid β42 levels were assayed in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with Kii amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism-dementia complex (n = 12), Alzheimer's disease (n = 9), Parkinson's disease (n = 9), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (...

background:  multiple  sclerosis  (ms) is a  chronic inflammatory  demyelinating  and  neurodegenerative disease  of central  nervous  system  with unknown  causes. etiology of ms involves  both  genetic  and  environment factors.  the  interleukin  7   receptor   (il7r)   gene   is  a promising candidate  for ms, because its involvement in the autoimmunity, regulation of the t-cell homeostasis...

objective(s): regulatory t cells, including cd4+cd25+fox3+ and cd8+cd28- cells play an important role in regulating the balance between immunity and tolerance. since multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory autoimmune disease, regulatory t cells are considered to be involved in its pathogenesis. in this study, we investigated the circulatory numbers of the two mentioned types of regulatory t cells...

how to cite this article: naser moghaddasi a. neuroplasticity in early onset multiple sclerosis. iran j child neurol. 2014autumn;8(4): 80-81.   letter to editor, has not abstract. references boiko a, vorobeychik g, paty d, devonshire v, sadovnick d; neurologists. early onset multiple sclerosis: a longitudinal study. neurology 2002; 59(7):1006-10. inaloo s, haghbin s. multiple sclerosis in child...

Objectives: Multiple Sclerosis is one of the most important and prevalent central nervous system diseases, causing disorders such as depression among affected patients. Positive psychotherapy is also a new approach that can be effective in reducing the depression of these people. This study aims to investigate the efficiency of group positive psychotherapy for decreasing the depression among fe...

background and purpose: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a disease determined by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. metals are suspected of being involved in ms. there is not any epidemiologic study about mines and ms. the purpose of this study was to determine ms prevalence according to mines in kerman province. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 932 patients in ...