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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 Kettenmann H (Germany) 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) 15 Central nervous system vasculitis Benseler SM (Canada) 16 Neuro-Behet 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-Barr syndrome Goodfellow JA (UK) 21 Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Diagnosis and therapy Said G (France) 22 Immune-mediated disorders of neuro-muscular junctions Gilhus NE (Norway) 23 Myositis Oldroyd A (UK) 3 Systemic neuroimmune diseases 24 Infection-related immune diseases Hadjivassiliou M (UK) 25 Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes; Diagnosis and Therapies Honnorat J (France)
