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Webcast Home  Now, I recently had some progression in my MS.
Most of our listeners know that I have multiple sclerosis as
well, and it involves my taste buds. I stopped tasting salt in
my food, and I have to tell you, as a chef, that's not the
greatest symptom in the world. But I suppose that's really more
of a sensory symptom than it is a cognitive one. So much of what
our brain does is to process sensory information. So I guess I'm
asking Dr. Fuchs how do you determine what is a true cognitive
symptom in MS? Dr. Fuchs: You just brought up a really
interesting example because this inability to taste salt is sort
of an invisible symptom of MS just like a lot of cognitive
symptoms are. You're fully aware of it, but anybody looking at
you wouldn't guess in a million years that you had trouble
tasting salt. And the other t