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Browse Articles, recent Forum and News posts, Patient Handouts, External Resources, and Featured Images and Videos concerned with neuroimmunologic disorders.

In the Spotlight

Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Autoantibodies: disease markers
Multiple sclerosis: clinical aspects
Paraneoplastic syndromes
Quality-of-life scales for neurologic diseases

Demyelinating Disorders

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
Balo concentric sclerosis
Clinically isolated syndrome
Fatigue in multiple sclerosis
Management of multiple sclerosis in COVID-19 pandemic
Multiple sclerosis and fertility
Multiple sclerosis: neurobehavioral aspects
Multiple sclerosis: neuroimmunology
Neurologic disorders associated with MOG antibodies
Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders
Optic neuritis
Optical coherence tomography in multiple sclerosis and neurologic disorders
Pediatric multiple sclerosis
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Sleep and multiple sclerosis
Transverse myelitis
Tumefactive demyelinating lesions

Autoimmune Encephalitis & Related CNS Disorders

Anti-IgLON5 disease
Anti-LGI1 encephalitis
Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) astrocytopathy
GAD antibody-spectrum disorders
Hashimoto encephalopathy
Movement disorders associated with autoimmune encephalitis
Nonparaneoplastic autoimmune cerebellar ataxias
Opsoclonus-myoclonus
Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus and glycine receptor antibodies
Stiff-person syndrome

Paraneoplastic Disorders

Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Myositis and cancer
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis
Paraneoplastic opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome in adults
Paraneoplastic retinopathy
Paraneoplastic sensory neuronopathy

Inflammatory & Immune-Mediated Neuropathies

Acquired sensory neuronopathies
Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Acute pandysautonomia
Anti-GQ1b antibody syndrome
Autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss
Bell palsy
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Guillain-Barre syndrome in children
Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome
Motor and multifocal motor neuropathies
Myasthenia gravis
Neuralgic amyotrophy
Neuropathies associated with cryoglobulinemia
POEMS syndrome
Polyneuropathy associated with anti-MAG IgM antibodies
Primary systemic amyloidosis: neurologic complications
Sarcoid neuropathy
Sensory neuropathies associated with anti-GD1b ganglioside antibodies

Localized & Systemic Vasculitis

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Primary CNS angiitis
Systemic small-vessel vasculitis
Takayasu arteritis
Temporal arteritis
Vasculitic neuropathies

Inflammatory & Immune-Mediated Myopathies

Dermatomyositis
Inclusion-body myositis
Polymyositis, necrotizing autoimmune myositis, myofasciitis, and overlap-myositis
Viral and retroviral myositis

Related Topics

Behcet disease
CLIPPERS
Neurosarcoidosis
PANDAS
Rheumatoid arthritis: neurologic manifestations
Sjogren syndrome: neurologic complications
Susac syndrome
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Systemic sclerosis
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome

Treatment Information

Alemtuzumab
Azathioprine
Clinical trials in multiple sclerosis
Dalfampridine
Dimethyl fumarate
Fingolimod
Glatiramer acetate
Infliximab
Interferon beta 1a
Interferon beta 1b
Intravenous immune globulin
Mitoxantrone
Multiple sclerosis: management
Multiple sclerosis: treatment of its symptoms
Mycophenolate
Natalizumab
Natalizumab and PML in MS
Ocrelizumab
Pyridostigmine
Vitamin D in neurologic disorders

Forum

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News

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Fatty acid may help combat multiple sclerosis
Jan 20, 2021
Dietary change might help treat some people with the autoimmune disease.
Researchers explore why some patients with multiple sclerosis experience seizures
Dec 22, 2020
Study examines molecular pathways that may instigate seizures in some multiple sclerosis patients.
Medication may improve thinking skills in advanced multiple sclerosis
Dec 16, 2020
Siponimod may improve cognitive processing speed in people with multiple sclerosis.
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Patient Handouts

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Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Miastenia gravis (Spanish)
Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (condensed)
Myasthenia gravis

Guidelines

AAN: Assessment and management of psychiatric disorders in individuals with MS

AAN: Clinical Evaluation and Treatment of Transverse Myelitis

AAN: Complementary and alternative medicine in multiple sclerosis

AAN: Efficacy and safety of medical marijuana in selected neurologic disorders

AAN: Efficacy and safety of mitoxantrone (Novantrone) in the teatment of multiple sclerosis

AAN: Immunotherapy for Guillain-Barre syndrome

AAN: Multiple Sclerosis

AAN: Neutralizing antibodies to Interferon-beta: clinical and radiographic Impact

AAN: Plasmapheresis in neurologic disorders

AAN: Thymectomy for autoimmune myasthenia gravis

AAN: Use of mitoxantrone (Novantrone) for the treatment of multiple sclerosis

AAN: Utility of MRI in suspected MS

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Featured Images and Videos

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MRI of Cervical spinal cord in multiple sclerosis Image: Cervical spinal cord in multiple sclerosis (MRI) (1)
MRI of Cervical spinal cord in multiple sclerosis Image: Cervical spinal cord in multiple sclerosis (MRI) (2)
Neurosarcoidosis: base of third ventricle and optic tract MRI Image: Neurosarcoidosis: base of third ventricle and optic tract
MRI of Periventricular location of plaques in multiple sclerosis Image: Periventricular location of plaques in multiple sclerosis (MRI)
Video: Internuclear ophthalmoplegia in multiple sclerosis