CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AUTOIMMUNITY (ADVANCED)
Learning Lab Advanced
Author information
Adrian Budhram, MD, FRCPC
Dr Budhram disclosed no conflict of interest
Learning objectives:
- Review basic concepts of neural antibody testing
- Review testing for central and peripheral nervous system autoimmune diseases, including:
- Autoimmune encephalitis
- Glutamic acid decarboxylase-65 neurologic autoimmunity
- Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes
- Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease
- Acute and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies
- Immune-mediated neuromuscular junction disorders
- Inflammatory myopathies