Neuroimmunological Diseases

Part I. Basic Immunology

1. Cellular Immunity and Multiple Sclerosis: Current Understanding
Wakiro Sato, Takashi Yamamura

2. Glia in Neuroimmunology
Akio Suzumura

3. Animal Models for the Study of Neuroimmunological Disease
J. Ludovic Croxford, Sachiko Miyake

4. Blood–Brain Barrier and Blood–Nerve Barrier
Yasuteru Sano, Takashi Kanda

Part II. Clinical Immunology

5. Multiple Sclerosis: Etiology and Mechanism, with Special Reference to Asians
Jun-ichi Kira

6. Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis and Treatment
Makoto Matsui

7. Neuropsychological Aspects of Multiple Sclerosis
Masaaki Niino

8. Neuromyelitis Optica: Diagnosis and Treatment
Yuji Nakatsuji, Makoto Kinoshita, Tatsusada Okuno, Kazushiro Takata, Toru Koda, Josephe A. Honorat, Saburo Sakoda, Hideki Mochizuki

9. Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Susumu Kusunoki

10. Autoantibodies in Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Kenichi Kaida

11. Fisher Syndrome
Atsuro Chiba

12. POEMS Syndrome
Satoshi Kuwabara, Sonoko Misawa

13. Treatment of Myasthenia Gravis After the 2014 Japanese Clinical Guideline
Masakatsu Motomura, Ruka Nakata, Hirokazu Shiraishi

14. N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antibody-Associated Autoimmune Encephalitis
Keiko Tanaka

15. Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy
Makoto Yoneda, Akiko Matsunaga, Masamichi Ikawa

16. Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndrome
Takashi Inuzuka, Yuichi Hayashi, Akio Kimura

17. Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy
Shunya Nakane, Osamu Higuchi, Hidenori Matsuo

18. Novel Treatment
Katsuichi Miyamoto

Nyckelord: Medicine & Public Health, Neurology, Immunology, Neurosciences