Brain Health in Multiple Sclerosis

Stephen Krieger, MD: One of the topics that are being talked about a lot in MS [multiple sclerosis] nowadays and here at the Congress of ECTRIMS [European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis] certainly is being discussed is the notion of brain health overall. So, we’re talking about an aging population. We’re talking about comorbidities. Many of them can sap brain health. You mentioned smoking, diabetes, and other vascular risk factors. And let’s speak a little bit about how you consider brain health in your practice Dr Bandari. Let’s think about it from the perspective of what is brain health and then we can think about how our medicines might impact that.