The book titled "Gens and Multiple Sclerosis" by authors Prof. Dr. Evica Dinčić, from the MMA’s Neurology Clinic and Dr. Maja Živković from the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences has been solemnly promoted at the Military Medical Academy.

The head of the Clinical Center of Serbia’s Neurology Clinic Academician Prof. Dr. Vladimir Kostić delivered a welcome speech and congratulated on excellent monographic work created as the result of several-year scientific work and examinations of multiple sclerosis gene context. About 2 millions of people suffer from this disease and that number continuously grows.

Colonel Prof. Dr. Ranko Raičević, head of the MMA’s Neurosurgical Clinics Group and the head of Neurology Clinic, who is also one of the book reviewers, saw in this work a big benefit for neurologists in the questions of better epidemiology, origins and evolution comprehension as well as the source of future ideas in the field of multiple sclerosis treatment. He also pointed out that book quality contribute to connection of genetics and clinical practice issues which is hard to do in every disease with complex genetic basis.

This book is unique by its approach through epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical image and different treatment methods, including the results of personal referent examinations of authors. Within five chapters it systematically treats the disease aspects which are constantly the subject of examinations, but none of them has been fully tested leaving that way the space for further analysis.