Mental Stress: Source of Neurological Degeneration; Case of MS

TL;DR

This paper explores the correlation between mental stress and multiple sclerosis (MS), suggesting stress may disrupt brain processes and contribute to MS onset, highlighting potential new treatment and prevention strategies.

Contribution

It provides evidence linking mental stress to MS prevalence and discusses how stress management could complement existing treatments to slow disease progression.

Findings

Correlation between stressors and MS incidence established

Stress may disrupt brain computational processes

Potential for stress reduction to lower MS incidence

Abstract

Mental stress is a vague though familiar concept that accounts for an agency of the good, the bad and the ugly, that operates in the brains of animated beings, in response to environmental stressors. In this work, we provide evidence for correlation of stressors with afflictions of MS throughout the world, and put forward arguments in support of the fact that stressors can render disruptions in the normal computational processes of the brain, defining the innards of the mental stress, which in turn may lead to the onset of physiologic adversities in the biologic systems, possibly rendering various diseases, even one as MS. While the real cause of the disease is still not known, major focus is put on the treatment of MS symptoms, aiming to slow down its progress and to reduce the frequency of attacks. In this effort we establish the link between MS and mental stress, through analyses of various aspects of statistics of prevalence and incidence, available in the literature [3-5], which lends itself to opening up of additional treatment possibilities that could be used separate of, or conjunctively with, the medical approaches. On a grander scale, publicizing the adverse workings of the mental stress and its evils can attain statistical gains, in the incidence reduction.