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Linda J. Wykes Luis B. Agellon Kristine G. Koski Stan Kubow Grace S. Marquis Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez Hope A. Weiler Harriet V. Kuhnlein Katherine Gray-Donald Louise Thibault Mirey Karavetian Zainab Taha Axen, Kathleen Sergio A. Burgos Vilceu Bordignon Dr. Laura Palanker Musselman Carol A DeNysschen Amanda Newell Teresa Drake Jeannette Davidson View MoreAlberto Ascherio
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Harward School Of Public Health
United States of America
he purpose of our research group is to identify causes, risk factors (positive and negative), and biomarkers of susceptibility and early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Because of their progressive and disabling nature, these diseases have major adverse personal, social, and economic consequences. Prevention and early detection are critical, because there are no cures and the clinical diagnosis typically occurs after substantial and often irreversible neuronal loss, and at a time when neuroprotective interventions are probably too late to be fully effective.
Organochlorine pesticide, PCBs, and Parkinson’s The association between intestinal parasites and multiple sclerosis: A pilot study of cases and controls Vitamin D, EBV infection, and cigarette smoking and risk of MS among women in the Finnish Maternity Cohort and their offspring Vitamin D, cigarette smoking, EBV and risk of MS progression