Multiple Sclerosis Discovery: The Podcast Of The Ms Discovery Forum

Hello, and welcome to Episode Eighteen of Multiple Sclerosis Discovery, the podcast of the MS Discovery Forum. I’m your host, Dan Keller.   The term “neuroscience” makes it very clear who is the star of the show—neurons. But over the past few years, glial cells have been elbowing their way in from supporting cast to stars in their own right. We recently reported a story about how oligodendrocytes need to make new myelin in order for mice to learn a new motor task effectively. The study demonstrated how glia are required in active learning, as well as highlighted the importance of targeting remyelination in new therapies for demyelinating disorders.   Finally, we recently added a new data visualization examining the differences in baseline characteristics of patients in 74 RRMS and CIS clinical trials. You can easily see how individual trials compare to the overall mean values of gender, age, Expanded Disability Status Scale score, the number of gadolinium enhancing lesions, and the volume of T2 lesions. To se