Inflammatory and Demyelinating Diseases
Neuro-inflammatory and demyelinating diseases like multiple sclerosis, Devic’s disease, and ADEM.
AMSAN, or acute motor and sensory axonal neuropathy, is a subtype of Guillain-Barré syndrome that is characterized by a combination of distal weakness (motor), reduction or complete loss of deep tendon reflexes... Read more »
Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis (BBE) is a rare inflammatory disorder involving the brainstem. Read more »
Miller Fisher Syndrome (MFS) is thought to be a variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) that affects primarily cranial nerves. Read more »
Multiple sclerosis is the most common demyelinaing disease and the most common disabling CNS disease of young adults. The etiology is not certain but likely autoimmune. The disease is characterized by the... Read more »
Neurosarcoidosis is defined as neuronal, either central or peripheral, involvement of sarcoidosis. About 10% of patients with systematic sarcoidosis have significant neurological deficits as a result of granulomatous lesions, but subclinical disease... Read more »