Preface

Acknowledgement

Dedication

Chapter 1. Exoskeleton-assisted Rehabilitation Training Improves Cognitive and Motor
Functions in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Chapter 2. The Early Stages Of Multiple Sclerosis:
New Targets for the Development of Combinational Drug Therapies

Chapter 3. Advanced Technique for Characterization
of Balance Disorders in Multiple Sclerosis: Posturography

Chapter 4. Recent developments in the understanding
and assessment of hope and
psycho-emotional expressions of illness for people with Multiple Sclerosis

Chapter 5. Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms

Chapter 6. Using Transcranial Direct Current
Stmiulation to
Manage Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis

Chapter 7. Oxidative Stress and Sterile Inflammation
in Multiple Sclerosis

Chapter 8. The Influence of Auditory
Neuroprosthetics on Gait & Postural Recovery in Multiple Sclerosis

Chapter 9. Neuropsychological Assessment in Multiple
Sclerosis

Chapter 10. Imaging Disconnection in Multiple
Sclerosis

Chapter 11. Gait Analyses in Multiple Sclerosis; and
Time Series

Chapter 12. A Brain-Computer Interface Web Browser
for Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Chapter 13.
Language, Speech and Voice Symptomatology (Dysarthria) in Multiple
Sclerosis: Electroglottographic and Acoustic Analysis for Assessment

Chapter 14. Novel Approaches for Segmenting Cerebral
Vasculature

More than two million people worldwide were affected by multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2015, with rates varying widely among different populations. This book explores the basics of MS, which is the most common immune-mediated disorder affecting the central nervous system.

Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This damage disrupts the ability of parts of the nervous system to communicate, resulting in a range of signs and symptoms, including physical, mental, and sometimes psychiatric problems. Specific symptoms can include double vision, blindness in one eye, muscle weakness, trouble with sensation, or trouble with coordination.

Written by experts in the field, this second volume includes illustrative figures and valuable references, and will be useful for researchers, students and practitioners in the industry. In addition to the numerous symptoms of MS, active research topics explored include: exoskeleton-assisted rehabilitation training, combinational drug therapies, characterization of balance disorders, transcranial direct current stimulation, oxidative stress, auditory neuroprosthetics, neuropsychological assessment, imaging disconnection, gait analysis, brain-computer interfaces and dysarthria.

Ayman El-Baz is a professor, university scholar and the chair of the Bioengineering Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He earned his BSc and MSc in electrical engineering in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Louisville in 2006, and has 17 years of hands-on experience in the fields of bio-imaging modeling and non-invasive computer-assisted diagnosis systems.

Jasjit S Suri is an innovator, scientist, visionary, industrialist and internationally known world leader in biomedical engineering. He has spent more than 25 years in the field of biomedical engineering and its management, and in 2018 he was awarded the Marquis Life Time Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions and dedication to medical imaging and its management.