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Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week 20th - 26th April 2020

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition that affects your brain and spinal cord. In MS, the coating that protects your nerves (myelin) is damaged. This causes a range of symptoms like blurred vision and problems with how we move think and feel. Once a person has been diagnosed with MS, it is with them for the rest of their lives; but with the help of treatments and specialists the condition and its symptoms can be managed.
More than 130,000 people in the UK have MS. In the UK people are most likely to find out they have MS in their thirties, forties and fifties and MS is also more likely to affect women than men.
For more information surrounding Multiple Sclerosis, please visit MS Society and NHS Choices websites:
https://www.mssociety.org.uk/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/multiple-sclerosis/

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES
For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who have been affected or suffer from multiple sclerosis, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS:
  • Multiple sclerosis / Omar Malik, Ann Donnelly, Michael Barnett, 2014, 3rd edition [Abingdon: Health Press]. This is a NHS & Keele e-book.
  • Multiple sclerosis / George D. Perkin, Jerry S. Wolinsky, 2006, 2nd edition, Abingdon: Health Press. This is an NHS and Keele e-book.

JOURNALS:
  • Multiple Sclerosis International / New York, NY : Hindawi Publishing Corporation. [Available as an Open Access ejournal 2010 onwards.]
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Demyelinating Disorders / London : BioMed Central. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2015 onwards and as a NHS ejournal 2016 onwards.]
  • Current Medical Literature : Multiple Sclerosis / Remedica Medical Education and Publishing [Available as a Keele ejournal 2009 - 2015 and as a NHS ejournal 1998 - 2015.]
  • Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical / Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications Ltd. [Available as an Open Access journal 2015 onwards.]
  • Multiple Sclerosis Journal / Houndmills, Basingstoke or; London : Sage Publications. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1999 onwards and as a NHS ejournal 1998 - 2015.]
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders / Amsterdam : Elsevier B.V. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2012 onwards and as a NHS ejournal 2012 onwards.]
  • Inside MS / New York, N.Y. : National Multiple Sclerosis Society. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1992 – 2007 and as a NHS ejournal.1997 – 2007.]
  • Momentum / New York, N.Y. : National Multiple Sclerosis Society. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2007 – 2013.]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
  • Stennett, Andrea ; De Souza, Lorraine ; Norris, Meriel, “The meaning of exercise and physical activity in community dwelling people with multiple sclerosis”, Disability and Rehabilitation, January 2020, Vol.42(3), pp.317-323. [Available via Keele ejournals.]
  • Cadden, Margaret H ; Arnett, Peter A ; Tyry, Tuula M ; Cook, Jonathan E, “Judgment hurts: The psychological consequences of experiencing stigma in multiple sclerosis”, Social Science & Medicine, July 2018, Vol.208, pp.158-164. [Available via Keele ejournals.]
  • Ransohoff, Richard M; Ransohoff, Richard M, “Immune-cell crosstalk in multiple sclerosis”, Nature, November 2018, Vol.563(7730), pp.194-195. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]
  • Antel, Jack, “Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis — Coming of Age”, The New England Journal of Medicine, September 2018, Vol.379(11), pp.1085-1086. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]
  • Brands, Ingrid ; Bol, Yvonne ; Stapert, Sven ; Köhler, Sebastian ; van Heugten, Caroline, “Is the effect of coping styles disease specific? Relationships with emotional distress and quality of life in acquired brain injury and multiple sclerosis”, Clinical Rehabilitation, January 2018, Vol.32(1), pp.116-126. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]
  • Filippi, Massimo; Amit Bar-Or; Piehl, Fredrik; Preziosa, Paolo; Solari, Alessandra; et al., “Multiple sclerosis”, Nature Reviews: Disease Primers, November 2018, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41572-018-0041-4 . [Available via NHS ejournals.]
  • Ciccarelli, Olga; Thompson, Alan, “Multiple sclerosis in 2015: Managing the complexity of multiple sclerosis”, Nature Reviews. Neurology; 2016, Vol.12(2),  pp.70-72. [Available via NHS ejournals.]
  • Ian B. Maitin; Cruz, Ernesto, “Special Considerations and Assessment in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis “, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 2018, Vol.29(3), pp. 473-481. [Available via NHS ejournals.]
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