This link gives a lot more detailed information into the study, it really sounds promising.
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2007/10_15_07.html
Here's a piece I've cut and pasted from the press release:
Calabresi added that many of the disabilities suffered by MS patients - numbness, tingling, visual impairment, fatigue, weakness and bladder function disturbance - are the result of nerve cell degeneration, so a test that specifically measures nerve cell health is potentially the clearest picture of the status of the disease.
He cautions that optic nerve damage can point to a number of diseases and is not a unique diagnostic tool for MS. However, he says, it certainly sends up a flag suggesting that MS might be present. . . . . . .
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It's really worth the read.
Be well,
SL
I asked my Opthamologist about this on November 20th when I saw him and he said that it would really be of no use to me. He said that it appears to be great for people with early onset of the disease but for someone that had previously been diagnosed...no use.
very interesting,I'd be game.Mri's take to darn long.
I just had a brain mri and it did not show optical neuritis but the veps came back showing bilaterial optical neuritis at some time.I know I had it last december in the right eye and in august in the left eye.
They need better advanced test that hopefully will be able to detect this Disease in its earliest stages.
T