Cognitive dysfunction in multiple sclerosis: Usually forgotten in the clinical assessment of MS patients

| May 2015 | 533 The cognitive domains impaired in MS seem to have an inter-patient variability, but a characteristic pa ern may be defi ned: Memory, information processing effi ciency, executive functioning, a ention, processing speed, are the most commonly compromised functions.[8] Recent research shows that MS patients have diffi culty with acquisition of new knowledge as opposed to retrieval from long-term storage.[9] Initially, based on the work of Rao et al. it was thought that memory diffi culty was due to impaired retrieval, but more recent explanations are based in inadequate acquisition secondary to information processing insuffi ciency.[10]