Fums: Giving Multiple Sclerosis The Finger

In today's episode, I'm talking to Dr. Victoria Leavitt, a clinical neuropsychologist and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. She's brilliant and has great insight into how to deal with the dreaded "cog fog" - from nutrition to exercise to helpful apps. She makes this very medically dense subject understandable and approachable.  We talk about how mood, and things like anxiety, depression and personality can affect cog fog - and how to deal with those things.  Rest is very important and can play a HUGE part in cog fog - but MS'ers are notoriously poor sleepers. She talks about that too. She explains just what a neuropsychologist is, what a neuropsych test is and what it can be used for and who should be tested and when. Have YOU been tested? I have - and I share my experience as well. So many info bombs in one place - but my biggest takeaway: social support is SO important. It's natural to pu