Grey matter and white matter atrophy in a large population of patients with multiple sclerosis: a 2 years follow-up study based on a fully automated MR segmentation method.

The Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) for Cognitive Impairment in multiple sclerosis (ms): a two years Longitudinal study in 300 patients.

An exploration of anger phenomenology in multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients are often emotionally disturbed. We investigated anger in these patients in relation to demographic, clinical, and mood characteristics.About 195 cognitively unimpaired MS patients (150 relapsing-remitting and 45 progressive) were evaluated with the State Trait Anger Expression Inventory, the Chicago Multiscale Depression Inventory, and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory. The patients' anger score distribution was compared with that of the normal Italian population. Correlation coefficients among scale scores were calculated and mean anger scores were compared across different groups of patients by analysis of variance.Of the five different aspects of anger, …

Gender-related effect of clinical and genetic variables on the cognitive impairment in MS.