Neuroimmunology

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

In the Spotlight

Autoantibodies: disease markers
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Lyme disease: controversial issues
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
Multiple sclerosis and fertility
Multiple sclerosis: biological differences in children and adults
Multiple sclerosis: neurobehavioral aspects
Multiple sclerosis: neuroimmunology
Neurologic disorders associated with MOG antibodies
Neuromyelitis optica
Optic neuritis
Optical coherence tomography in multiple sclerosis and neurologic disorders
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Sleep and multiple sclerosis
Transverse myelitis
Tumefactive demyelinating lesions

Autoimmune Encephalitis & Related CNS Disorders

Anti-IgLON5 disease
Anti-LGI1 encephalitis
Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) astrocytopathy
Hashimoto encephalopathy
Movement disorders associated with autoimmune encephalitis
Nonparaneoplastic autoimmune cerebellar diseases
Opsoclonus-myoclonus
Stiff-person syndrome

Paraneoplastic Disorders

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

Inflammatory & Immune-Mediated Neuropathies

Acquired sensory neuronopathies
Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Acute pandysautonomia
Autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss
Bell palsy
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Congenital myasthenic syndromes
Guillain-Barre syndrome in children
Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome
Miller Fisher syndrome and Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis: anti-GQ1b antibody 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

Disorders Associated with Infectious Diseases

AIDS and HIV: neurologic manifestations and complications
Congenital cytomegalovirus
Congenital lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection
Congenital rubella
HTLV-1 associated myelopathy
Lyme disease: controversial issues
Neuropathies associated with cytomegalovirus infection

Inflammatory & Immune-Mediated Myopathies

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

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

Interact with your peers.

News

See what's being published in neurology and the neurosciences.

Patients with Parkinson disease face unique “hidden sorrows” related to COVID-19

Apr 03, 2020

Experts discuss potentially grave consequences for patients with Parkinson disease related to social distancing as well as opportunities like new avenues for research and initiatives that may offer positive help and support.

Rare encephalopathy seen in COVID-19 case

Apr 02, 2020

But neurologic complications of the virus are unclear.

FDA approves ozanimod for multiple sclerosis

Mar 27, 2020

Ozanimod is the latest in a series of novel medicines to originate from the laboratories of Scripps Research.

View All

Patient Handouts

Print or email information for your patients when needed.

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Bell palsy
Miastenia gravis (Spanish)
Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (condensed)
Myasthenia gravis
Parálisis de Bell (Spanish)

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

Other External Resources

Explore other relevant websites.

Featured Images and Videos

Learn from examples.

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