A patient is diagnosed with a degenerative disease of the nervous system. Select the disorder that would match this diagnosis.

Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system in which the immune system damages the protective covering around nerve fibers. It can cause progressive neurological problems, so it matches a degenerative nervous system diagnosis. Epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and headaches do not describe this kind of degenerative disease.

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