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Dawn Langdon, EAN 2019 – Cognitive assessment in multiple sclerosis

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Published Online: Jul 9th 2019

We were fortunate to catch up with European editorial board member Dawn Langdon (Royal Holloway University of London, UK). She talked to us about a clinical tool she developed called BICAMS (Brief international Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis), it’s importance and clinical impact so far, as well as next steps.

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1. Could you tell us a little about BICAMS (Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis [MS])? (0:04)
2. What impact has BICAMS made on the MS community so far? (0:57)
3. Could you tell us about your latest project – MS Trajectories? (2:11)

Speaker disclosure: Dawn Langdon has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Filmed at the 5th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), Oslo, Norway, June 2019.

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