NMO has many overlapping symptoms with MS ... In MS, demyelination can affect the brain and the spinal cord. Brain or spinal cord MRI can detect areas of inflammation, demyelination, and scarring ...

And neuromyelitis optica is also brain and spinal cord. We used to think that NMO was like a variant of multiple sclerosis. That's before the antibody was discovered. The antibody was discovered ...

NMOSD is a unifying term for neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and related syndromes ... During the phase 3 trial, MRI imaging was conducted on the spinal cord, optic nerve, and brain/brain stem to ...