Neuroimmune Diseases. From Cells to the Living Brain

Table of Contents:

Chapters and Authors:

Fundamental Mechanisms and General Principles

  1. Overview of Mechanisms Underlying Neuroimmune Diseases
    Authors: Sandip Ashok Sonar, Girdhari Lal

  2. Principles in Effector T Cells
    Authors: Hisao Miyajima, Yuki Fujita, Toshihide Yamashita

  3. Th17-Mediated Immune Responses in Pathogenesis of Neuroinflammatory Disorders
    Authors: Arash Pourgholaminejad, Foozhan Tahmasebinia

  4. Significance of Autoantibodies
    Author: Christiane S. Hampe

  5. Immune Tolerance in Autoimmune Central Nervous System Disorders
    Authors: Sundararajan Jayaraman, Bellur S. Prabhakar

  6. The Roles of Regulatory T Cells in Central Nervous System Autoimmunity
    Authors: Brooke A. Keating, Justin G. Lees, Gila Moalem-Taylor

  7. Disruption of the Blood-Brain Barrier During Neuroinflammatory and Neuroinfectious Diseases
    Authors: Hamid Salimi, Robyn S. Klein

  8. Structural and Functional Characteristics of the Human Blood-Nerve Barrier with Translational Implications to Peripheral Nerve Autoimmune Disorders
    Author: Eroboghene E. Ubogu

  9. Origin, Diversity, and Roles of Microglia
    Author: Laurence Ris

  10. Autoimmune Astrocytopathy
    Authors: Jorge Correale, Mariano Marrodan

  11. The Intestinal Neuro-immune Axis
    Authors: Iddrisu Ibrahim, Syamala Soumya Krishnan, Joseph Atia Ayariga

  12. Genetic Factors in Neuroimmune Diseases
    Author: Alessandro Didonna

  13. General Principles of Immunotherapy in Neurological Diseases
    Authors: Paulus S. Rommer, Michael Hecker, Tobias Zrzavy, Uwe K. Zettl

  14. Molecular Targeted Therapies in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
    Author: Yoshiya Tanaka


Disorders: Diagnosis and Therapies

  1. Postinfectious Immune-Mediated Neurological Diseases
    Authors: Marios Hadjivassiliou, Panagiotis Zis

  2. Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes
    Authors: Sergio Muñiz-Castrillo, Macarena Villagrán-García, Jérôme Honnorat

  3. Multiple Sclerosis
    Authors: Jun-ichi Kira, Noriko Isobe

  4. Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder
    Authors: Samira Saadoun, Vincent T. W. Chang, Marios C. Papadopoulos

  5. The Spectrum of Atypical Inflammatory Demyelinating Syndromes of the Central Nervous System
    Author: Todd A. Hardy

  6. GFAP Autoimmune Astrocytopathy: Clinical and Immunological Characteristics
    Authors: Eleonora Sabatelli, Raffaele Iorio

  7. Central Nervous System Vasculitis and Related Diseases
    Authors: Hiroshi Mitoma, Mario Manto, Jordi Gandini

  8. Autoimmune Limbic Encephalitis
    Authors: Shahar Shelly, Ram Narayan, Divyanshu Dubey

  9. Rasmussen Encephalitis
    Authors: Stanislas Lagarde, Nathalie Villeneuve, Fabrice Bartolomei

  10. Autoimmune Ataxias
    Authors: Marios Hadjivassiliou, Hiroshi Mitoma, Mario Manto

  11. Stiff-Person Syndrome Spectrum Disorders
    Authors: José Fidel Baizabal-Carvallo, Marlene Alonso-Juarez

  12. Neuroinflammation and Sjogren’s Syndrome
    Author: Pasquale Annunziata

  13. Behçet’s Syndrome and the Nervous System Involvement
    Authors: Ugur Uygunoglu, Aksel Siva

  14. Neurosarcoidosis
    Authors: Patompong Ungprasert, Brandon P. Moss

  15. Uveomeningitis
    Authors: Mario Manto, Hiroshi Goto, Hiroshi Mitoma

  16. Anti-IgLON5 Disease: A Cross Talk between Autoimmunity and Tauopathy
    Authors: Carles Gaig, Lidia Sabater, Francesc Graus

  17. Guillain-Barré Syndrome
    Authors: Yhojan Rodríguez, Christopher Chang, Diana C. González-Bravo, M. Eric Gershwin, Juan-Manuel Anaya

  18. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
    Authors: Miki Suzuki, Gérard Said

  19. Myasthenia Gravis and Other Immune-Mediated Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
    Author: Nils Erik Gilhus

  20. Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis
    Authors: Reşit Yıldırım, Liliana R. Santos, David Isenberg