NEUROIMMUNOLOGY. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, AUTOIMMUNE NEUROLOGY AND RELATED DISEASES

1. Introduction to Neuroimmunology: What the Cerebrospinal Fluid Teaches Us About Diseases of the Central Nervous System
2. Antibody Detection Methods for Neural Autoantibodies and Introduction to Antibody Pathogenesis
3. Neuroimaging Modalities in Neuroimmunology
4. Clinical Trial Design in Neuroimmunology
5. Concepts of Immune Therapy and Disease Management
6. Evolution of the Diagnostic Criteria in Multiple Sclerosis
7. Natural History of Multiple Sclerosis
8. Pathology of Multiple Sclerosis
9. Immunology of Multiple Sclerosis
10. Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis and Environmental Risk Factors
11. The Genetics of Multiple Sclerosis
12. Autoimmune and Paraneoplastic Encephalitis
13. Autoimmune Epilepsy
14. Autoimmune and Paraneoplastic Movement Disorders
15. Autoimmune Demyelinating Syndromes: Aquaporin-4-IgG-positive NMOSD and MOG - IgG Associated Disorder
16. Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes
17. Treatment Approaches in Autoimmune Neurology: Focus on Autoimmune Encephalitis with Neuronal Cell Surface Antibodies
18. Acute and Chronic Immune Neuropathies and Radiculopathies
19. Autoimmune Diseases of the Neuromuscular Junction: Myasthenia Gravis and Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
20. Immune and Inflammatory Myopathies
21. Autoimmune Autonomic Disorders
22. Neurorheumatology
23. Neurosarcoidosis
24. Central Nervous System Vasculitis
25. Infections, Immunodeficiency, and Complications of Immunomodulatory Therapies in Neuroimmunology
26. Oncological Mimics in Inflammatory CNS Disease
27. Clinical Approach to Autoimmune Myelitis and Myelopathy
28. Clinical Approach to Autoimmune and Inflammatory Ophthalmologic Disease
29. Clinical Approach to Pediatric Demyelinating Disease
30. Clinical Approach to Stiff Person Syndrome
31. Use of Disease-Modifying Therapies in Multiple Sclerosis
32. Symptom Management in Multiple Sclerosis

This book provides a clinical focus on neuroinflammatory diseases as well as a review in pathophysiology and treatment approaches.
Organized into six parts, the book begins with a basic review of the immune system and concepts for learning and treating neuroimmune conditions. The next four sections cover specific subfields of neuroimmunology and autoimmune neurology - the clinical and diagnostic features of multiple sclerosis, other autoimmune conditions of the central nervous system, autoimmune conditions of the peripheral nervous system, and systemic autoimmune conditions that affect the nervous system. To conclude, Section six discusses various clinical approaches to specific presentations in neuroimmunology, including pediatric demyelinating diseases. These sections provide practical clinical information to improve the reader’s knowledge in this complex field. The chapters are written by world renown authors with extensive knowledge to help provide up to date information. The full scope of autoimmune neurology is discussed, which is a unique feature of this book.
Neuroimmunology serves as a resource for those in training including residents and fellows to provide clear clinical reasoning and background in a rapidly advancing field.

Features
• Focuses on various neuroinflammatory diseases, including multiple sclerosis, immune-mediated neurological diseases and autoimmune neurological disease
• Reviews pathophysiology and treatment approaches
• Provides neurologists and trainees a comprehensive resource to this rapidly growing field