Section 1 Pathogenesis 1. Immune regulation of multiple sclerosis 2. Neuropathology of MS 3. The good and the bad of neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis 4. Demyelination in multiple sclerosis 5. Axonal loss in multiple sclerosis: Causes and mechanisms 6. Insights from magnetic resonance imaging 7. Infections and multiple sclerosis 8. The experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) model of MS: utility for understanding disease pathophysiology and treatment Section 2 Epidemiology and genetics 9. Multiple sclerosis genetics 10. Genetics of primary progressive multiple sclerosis 11. The epidemiology of multiple sclerosis: insights to disease pathogenesis Section 3 Diagnosis and disease course 12. Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis, differential diagnosis and clinical presentation 13. MRI mimics of multiple sclerosis 14. Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis 15. Clinical course of multiple sclerosis 16. Early prognosis of multiple sclerosis 17. Clinical outcome measures in multiple sclerosis 18. MRI outcomes in the diagnosis and disease course of multiple sclerosis 19. Multiple sclerosis in children Section 4 Treatment 20. Clinical trials in multiple sclerosis 21. Glucocorticoid treatment of multiple sclerosis 22. Disease modifying agents in multiple sclerosis 23. Immunosuppressive treatments in multiple sclerosis 24. Symptomatic treatment and management of multiple sclerosis 25. Future treatment approaches to multiple sclerosis Section 5 Other demyelinating diseases 26. Neuromyelitis optica (Devic's syndrome) 27. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and other inflammatory demyelinating variants 28. Acute inflammatory myelopathies Section 6 Capita selecta 29. Clinical neurophysiology of multiple sclerosis 30. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis ukryj opis