Inflammatory and Autoimmune Disorders of the Nervous System in Children

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Russell C. Dale (Australia) and Angela Vincent (UK)

INFLAMMATION AND AUTOIMMUNITY: A NERVOUS SYSTEM PERSPECTIVE Fabienne Brilot (Australia)

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS

DEMYELINATING SYNDROMES

OVERVIEW OF NEW INTERNATIONAL DEFINITIONS FOR CNS DEMYELINATION SYNDROMES IN CHILDREN Russell C. Dale (UK) and Silvia Tenembaum (Argentina)

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS Silvia Tenembaum (Argentina) and Tanuja Chitnis (USA)

CHILDHOOD MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Yann Mikaeloff, Russell C. Dale (Australia) and Marc Tardieu (France)

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: AN ADULTS PERSPECTIVE Gavin Giovannoni (UK)

TRANSVERSE MYELITIS Michael Levy and Douglas Kerr (USA)

OPTIC NEURITIS IN CHILDREN Brenda Banwell and Raymond Buncic (Canada)

REGIONAL NEUROINFLAMMATORY SYNDROMES

SYDENHAM’S CHOREA Francisco Cardoso (Brazil)

PAEDIATRIC AUTOIMMUNE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION (PANDAS) Tanya Murphy and Ana Segarra (USA)

OPSOCLONUS MYCLONUS SYNDROME Michael Pranzatelli (USA)

OTHER IMMUNE-MEDIATED EXTRAPYRAMIDAL MOVEMENT DISORDERS Russell C. Dale (Australia)

POST-INFECTIOUS ATAXIA AND CEREBELLITIS Deepak Gill (Australia)

RASMUSSEN ENCEPHALITIS Christian Bien (Germany) and Jan Bauer (Austria)

SYSTEMIC AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS AND VASCULITIS

NEUROPSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONSD OF CHILDHOOD SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS AND ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME Liora Harel (Israel) and Emily von Scheven (USA)

CEREBRAL VASCULITIS Jorina Elbers and Susanne Benseler (Canada)

MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION SYNDROMES Marc Tardieu and Nizar Mahlaoui (France)

ORPHAN NEURO-INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS

AICARDI-GOUTIERES SYNDROME AND RELATED DISORDERS John B.P. Stephenson and Yanick J. Crow (UK)

NEONATAL ONSET MULTISYSTEMJ INFLAMMATORY DISORDER (NOMID)/CHRONIC INFANTILE NEUROLOGICAL CUTANEOUS SYNDROME (CINCA) Simon R. Ling (Singapore) and P. Ian Andrews (Australia)

FOLATE RECEPTOR AUTOIMMUNITY IN CEREBRAL FOLATE DEFICIENCY Vincent T. Ramaekers (Germany) and Edward V. Quadros (USA)

EMERGING CONCEPTS

INFLAMMATORY MECHANISMS IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS Ming Lim, Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, and Francis Platt (UK)

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AUTOANTIBODIES IN NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROMES Mia Levite and Yonatan Ganor (Israel)

AUTOIMMUNE CHANNELOPATHIES: LESSONS FROM ADULT NEUROLOGY

PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS

CHILDHOOD AUTOIMMUNE MYASTHENIA Jeremy Parr, Sandeep Jayawant, Camilla Buckley, and Angela Vincent (UK)

GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY IN CHILDHOOD Monique M. Ryan, John D. Pollard, and Robert A. Ouvrier (Australia)

DERMATOMYOSITIS AND POLYMYOSITIS Elizabeth Stringer and Brian M. Feldman (Canada)

INFLAMMATORY MECHANISMS IN GENETIC NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS James G. Tidball and Michelle Wehling-Henriks (USA)