Neuroimmune Diseases From Cells to the Living Brain

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

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)

            Benseler SM (Canada)

16 Neuro-Beçhet and Sjogren 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)

            Said G (France)

22 Immune-mediated disorders of neuro-muscular junctions

            Gilhus NE (Norway)

23 Myositis

            Oldroyd A (UK)

3 Systemic neuroimmune diseases

            Hadjivassiliou M (UK)

25 Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes; Diagnosis and Therapies

            Honnorat J (France)

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.