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MS in the Media - 22 May 2020

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  1. Mindfulness helps emotional and cognitive health
  2. EBV more common in MS

8-22 May 2020

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Mindfulness helps emotional and cognitive health

A four-week mindfulness meditation training helped people with MS control emotions such as depression and anxiety and with cognition issues such as memory, according to a US study.

Source: National MS Society (USA)

MS Trust link: Mindfulness

EBV more common in MS

Everyone with multiple sclerosis showed antibodies to the Epstein Barr virus (EBV) in their blood in a German study of people in the early stages of MS. Exposure to EBV, which can cause glandular fever, is very high in the general population. A control group of people who don't have MS showed the level to be 95%. Although this study shows an association, it doesn't prove that EBV causes MS.

Source: AJMC

MS Trust link: Epstein Barr virus (EBV)

 

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