Multiple Sclerosis may progress the opposite direction than we thought

Multiple Sclerosis(MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the Central Nervous System. Inflammation occurs in the CNS attacking the body's own myelin sheaths. Needless to say this is very detrimental to several functions of the body. Not much is known about the actual cause of MS , but it had previously been thought to affect the white matter(inner part of the brain), and then spread to the cortex(outer part of the brain). The study found that a portion of patients in an early stage of MS had damage only in the cortex of their brain, and not within the grey matter. This allowed researches to conclude that MS may start in the cortex, and then progress to the inner parts of the brain. This finding is one more step in the direction of understanding MS, and autoimmune diseases even further. Hopefully gaining a better understanding of the global view and progression of MS will lead to a potential cure for this terrible disease.