It is pronounced as "peh-lee-zowz-mairz-bah-ker."

Besides MS, there are several other demyelinating diseases, such as the leukodystrophies (Adrenoleukodystrophy, Canavan Disease, Krabbe Disease, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, Cockayne Syndrome, and Alexander's Disease)

Initial, stereotypical symptoms involve rotary movements of the head and eyes, which may later disappear. Other symptoms include hypotonia, choreoathetosis (slow or jerky involuntary movements), spasticity, cerebellar ataxia

Signs/symptoms in the classical form (type 1) develop in infancy and progress slowly, with death occurring in late adolescence or early adulthood. The connatal form (type 2) also develops in infancy, but progresses more rapidly

Eugen Merzbacher was born in 1921.