Demyelination

Demyelination is a pathological process that is a selective damage to the myelin sheath that passes around the nerve fibers of the central or peripheral nervous system , which leads to disruption of the functions of the myelin nerve fibers.

Demyelination can be divided into 2 types:

1. Myelinopathy is the destruction of myelin due to a genetic predisposition to the rapid destruction of the myelin sheath.
2. Myelinlastia is the destruction of already formed myelin due to reasons not related to myelin (for example, autoimmune inflammation in demyelinating diseases ). Myelin destruction due to a genetic predisposition to rapid destruction of the myelin sheath.

Signs of demyelination as a pathological process cannot be distinguished. Symptoms depend on the localization of demyelination in the structures of the central or peripheral nervous system.