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MS. In many ways, the most severe impairment caused by MS is cognitive loss. While cognitive loss has only been recognized in the last several decades, we have researched and learned of strategies to manage cognitive and emotional deficits.It is now known that for every clinical exacerbation there are several new MS lesions that do not manifest themselves in motor, sensory, visual, or other easily identifiable pathways. These new lesions may affect cognition, memory, and emotions in the large part of the brain that controls “higher functioning.”Cognitive and emotional deficits can be managed with pharmacological (medicines), psychological, and substitutive techniques (such as writing things down rather than committing them to memory). Vocational rehabilitation interventions must be directed at these deficits, as well as to the physical losses. Thus, not only must the MS patient’s job accommodate the physical losses, it must also be structured to allow for memory impairment.Rehabilitation is clearly the only practical means to significantly improve function for persons with MS, and is a major emphasis at the Center.To better explain the range of services offered at the W