Serum Neurofilaments and GFAP in Atypical Multiple Sclerosis

Inclusion criteria

• The subject must have given his informed consent and signed the consent form (if patient is protected by the law due to the study pathology, the consent will be signed his tutor or guardian ; if patient is unable to read or sign the consent form due to the study pathology, the consent will be signed by his family/trusted person)
• The subject is at least 18 years old (≥).
• Affiliate or beneficiary of a social security scheme

Inclusion criteria

specific to Patients:

• Patients with atypical form of MS
• OR patients with RRMS (Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis)
• OR patients with PPMS (Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis)

(Patients will be matched on EDSS score (+/-1) and age (+/-5) ; Controls will be matched with patients on age)

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant or lactating women.
• Vulnerable people.
• Simultaneous participation in any other research protocol.
• Contraindication to the realization of an MRI (ferromagnetic ocular or cerebral foreign bodies close to nerve structures, pace-maker, cochlear implants)
• Claustrophobic subject
• Subject presenting a neurodegenerative disease (Parkinson, Alzheimer ...)
• Subject presenting psychiatric disorders like psychosis, excluding anxio-depressive episode
• Subject presenting a systemic pathology with neurological manifestation
• Subject presenting anterior or evolutionary neurological pathology other than the 3 entities defined in the inclusion criteria
• Subject presenting or having had a history of severe group 2 or 3 head trauma according to the Masters classification
• Patient receiving high dose corticosteroid therapy in the 3 months prior to inclusion in the study

Exclusion criteria

specific to Patients:

• Patient who is taking, or who has taken in the last year, one of the following treatments: Fingolimod, or any Monoclonal Antibody (Natalizumab, Rituximab, Ocrelizumab, Alemtuzumab ...)
• Patient having had an outbreak of the disease in the 3 months prior to inclusion in the study

Exclusion criteria

specific to Controls:

• Subjects who are protected or unable to give their consent
• Subject with anterior or progressive neurological pathology
• Patient being treated or having taken any Monoclonal Antibody
• In the period of exclusion relating to another protocol or for which the annual amount of the maximum indemnities of 4500 € has been reached