Inflammatory and autoimmune disorders of the nervous system in children / edited by Russell C. Dale and Angela Vincent ; [editor Hilary Hart].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Russell C. Dale and Angela Vincent -- Inflammation and Autoimmunity : A Nervous System Perspective / Fabienne Brilot -- New International Definitions for Central Nervous System Demyelination Syndromes in Children / Russell C. Dale and Silvia N. Tenembaum -- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis / Silvia N. Tenembaum and Tanuja Chitnis -- Childhood Multiple Sclerosis / Yann Mikaeloff, Russell C. Dale and Marc Tardieu -- Multiple Sclerosis : An Adult Perspective / Gavin Giovannoni and Samuel Jackson -- Transverse Myelitis / Michael Levy and Douglas Kerr -- Optic Neuritis in Children / Brenda L. Banwell and Raymond Buncic -- Sydenham Chorea / Francisco Cardoso -- Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infection / Tanya Murphy and Ana Segarra-Brechtel -- Opsoclonus-Myclonus Syndrome / Michael R. Pranzatelli and Elizabeth Tate -- Other Immune-Mediated Extrapyramidal Movement Disorders / Russell C. Dale -- Post-Infectious Ataxia and Cerebellitis / Deepak Gill -- Rasmussen Encephalitis / Christian G. Bien and Jan Bauer -- Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome / Liora Harel and Emily von Scheven.

Central Nervous System Vasculitis / Jorina Elbers and Susanne M. Benseler -- Macrophage Activation Syndromes / Marc Tardieu and Nizar Mahlaoui -- Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome and Related Disorders / John B.P. Stephenson and Yanick J. Crow -- Neonatal-Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disorder/Chronic Infantile Neurological Cutaneous Syndrome / Simon R. Ling and P. Ian Andrews -- Folate Receptor Autoimmunity in Cerebral Folate Deficiency / Vincent T. Ramaekers and Edward V. Quadros -- Innate Immue System and Inflammatory Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Disorders / Ming Lim, Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, and Francis Platt -- Glutamate Receptor Autoantibodies in Epilepsy, Systemic Lupus Erythematosis and Encephalitis / Mia Levite and Yonatan Ganor -- Autoimmune Channelopathies and Other Antibody-Associated Neurological Disorders / Angela Vincent and Russell C. Dale -- Childhood Autoimmune Myasthenia / Jeremy Parr, Sandeep Jayawant, Camilla Buckley, and Angela Vincent -- Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy in Childhood / Monique M. Ryan, John D. Pollard, and Robert A. Ouvrier -- Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis / Elizabeth Stringer and Brian M. Feldman -- Inflammatory Mechanisms in Genetic Neuromuscular Disorders / James G. Tidball and Michelle Wehling-Henriks.

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This book provides a detailed and comprehensive summary of the childhood diseases that are, or are likely to be, caused by the immune system.

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