SECTION I. Fundamental pathogenic actions
1Overview of mechanisms underlying neuroimmune diseases
Korn T (Germany)
2 Roles of interleukines in neurological autoimmunity
Waisman A( Germany)
3 Roles of regulatory T cells in neurological autoimmunity
Hafler DA (USA)
4 Immune tolerance triggering neurological autoimmunity
Prabhaker BS (USA)
5 Disruption of blood-brain barrier and blood-nerve barrier: a key step in development of immune-mediated neurological diseases
Varatharaj A (UK)
6 Pathological mechanisms underlying production of autoantibodies
Zenker P (Australia)
7 Significance of autoantibodies: cause or result?
Dalmau J (USA), Lanchaster E (USA)
8 Multiple actions of microglia
Kettenmann H (Germany) 9 Autoimmune astropathy
Bradl M (Australlia)
10 Genetic factors indicating susceptibility to neurological diseases
Baranzini SE (USA)
SECTION II. Clinical immunology: Pathogenesis, updated diagnostic criteria and novel therapeutic strategies
1 CNS neuroimmune diseases
11 General principles of immunotherapy
Vincent A (UK)
12 Multiple sclerosis
Brownlee WJ (UK)
13 Neuromyelitis optica: Diagnosis and therapies
Biousse V (USA)
14 Atypical inflammatory demyelinating syndrome
Hardy TA (Australia)
15 Central nervous system vasculitis Benseler SM (Canada)
16 Neuro-Beçhet and Sjőgren disease
Al-Araji A (UK)
17 Immune-mediated cortical encephalopathy (Limbic encephalitis)
Graus F (Spain)
18 Immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias
Hadjivassiliou M (UK)
19 Stiff-Person syndrome
Balint B (UK)
2 Peripheral neuroimmune diseases
20 Guillain-Barré syndrome
Goodfellow JA (UK)
21 Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Diagnosis and therapy Said G (France)
22 Immune-mediated disorders of neuro-muscular junctions
Gilhus NE (Norway)
23 Myositis
Oldroyd A (UK)
3 Systemic neuroimmune diseases
24 Infection-related immune diseases Hadjivassiliou M (UK)
25 Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes; Diagnosis and Therapies
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About the Author: Hiroshi Mitoma is Neurologist and Neurophysiologist, Professor and Chairman, Medical Education Promotion Center and Department Medical Education at Tokyo Medical University.
Mario Manto is Neurologist, Head of the Department of Neurology at the CHU-Charleroi, Professor of Neuroanatomy and Neurological Semiology at the University of Mons. He is also teaching Pathophysiology of the Nervous System. He is the Founding Editor of The Cerebellum, Cerebellum and Ataxias and has written or edited 10 books.
