Clinical Neurimmunology is the major reference text in the field, providing broad and comprehensive coverage of the interaction between the nervous and immune systems in both normal and diseased states. Understanding this interaction is fundamental to developing therapeutic approaches to disease and injury of the nervous system that are currently only marginally amenable to therapy. Neuroimmunology is a well-recognised and growing specialty world wide, both at the basic science and clinical level. It is a fast moving field and this is the most up to date text available. Chapters are dedicated to the role of the immune system in disorders affecting both the central and peripheral nervous systems, including important neurodegenerative diseases (such as multiple sclerosis and HIV-related neural degeneration) which cause life-long disability. Extensive coverage is given to a whole array of immune-directed therapies. The book has a strong international team of well respected, high profile editors and authors. The first edition published to extensive and positive reviews and has established itself as the principal reference source in the field. This second edition summarizes recent advances in clinical neuroimmunology in a comprehensive and unbiased way.

1. A brief history of neuroimmunology, Byron Waksman 2. Basics of immunology, Jack Antel, Gary Birnbaum & Hans-Peter Hartung 3. Assessing immune function in clinical neuroimmunologic disease, Jack Antel, Gary Birnbaum & Hans-Peter Hartung 4. Principles of autoimmunity, David Hafler 5. Principles of immunotherapy, Reinhold Hohfield, Bernard Hemmer & Hans-Peter Hartung 5b. Organisation and development of the central nervous system, Matthew Wood 6. Immunology properties of the CNS, Burkhard Becher 7. Role of the immune response in neuroprotection and repair, Sam David & Steve Lacroix 8. Immunology properties of the PNS, Hans-Peter Hartung 9. Genetics of immune-mediated neurologic diseases, Steven Hauser, Jorge Oksenberg & David Brassat 10. Principles of immune-virus interactions in the nervous system, Pierre Talbot 11. Immunity of bacterial infections, Walter Pfister & Uwe Koedel 12. Animal models of neuroimmunologic disease, Trevor Owens & Iain Campbell 13. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, Robert Lisak & Alex Tselis 14. Multiple Sclerosis - immunopathology, Bruce Trapp & Richard Ransohoff 15. Multiple Sclerosis - effects of immune mediators on neurophysiologic function, Ken Smith & Richard Evans 16. Multiple Sclerosis - monitoring the immuno-biology by neuroimaging, Doug Arnold, Nicola de Stefano, Zografos Caramanos, Roger Gunn & Joseph Frank 17. Clinical immunology, Jack Antel & Gary Birnbaum 18. Multiple Sclerosis - immune-directed therapy, Hans-Peter Hartung, Bernard Hemmer & Bernd Kieseier 19. Acute Inflammatory Neuropathies, Hans-Peter Hartung, Bernard Hemmer & Bernd Kieseier 20. Chronic inflammatory neuropathies, John Pollard 21. Antibody mediated disorders of the neuromuscular junction, Angela Vincent 22. Inflammatory diseases of muscle, Marinos Dalakas 23. HIV infection and the nervous system, Chris Power & Guido van Marle 24. HTLV-1 infection and the nervous system, Steve Jacobson, Utano Tomaru & Yoshihisa Yamano 25. Lyme disease, Andrew Pachner 26. Paraneoplastic syndromes, Josep Dalmau 27. Paraproteinemic neuropathies, Norman Latov, Andreas Steck & Susanne Renaud 28. Bechet's disease, Aksel Siva, Ayse Altintas & Sabahattin Saip 29. Role of neural-immune interactions in neurodegenerative diseases, Patrick McGeer & Edith McGeer 30. CNS neoplastic diseases and the immune system, Nicolas de Tribolet 31. Vasculitis disorders of the nervous system, Paula Dore-Duffy & Rouman Balabanov 32. Psycho-neuro immunology, Esther Sternberg 33. Regeneration of the CNS, Boris Zalc & Catherine Lubetzki 34. Immunological aspects of cerebal ischemia, Guido Stoll & John Hallenbeck 35. Antibodies and CNS disorders, Angela Vincent 36. Immunologic dictionary, Jack Antel, Gary Birnbaum & Hans-Peter Hartung

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