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Diagnosis is not easy, and there are various methods since symptoms of MS are different for each individual. In order to make a diagnosis, the physician has to find damage in two or more places in the central nervous system, and ALSO have evidence that the damages happened at least a month apart. Methods of testing include MRI, VEP, blood tests, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, and resonance spectroscopy.
 * Diagnosing MS:**

The one that first recognized and defined MS is called the 'Father of MS', and he is the French scientist Jean-Martin Charcot. Each week, about 200 more people are diagnosed with MS. In 2004, 400,000 people had MS in the US, and there were 2.5 million cases worldwide.
 * Cases of MS:**

__**Miniquiz:**__
 * 1) What makes diagnosing MS difficult?