"Pathogenesis of Encephalitis" ed. by Daisuke Hayasaka

This book provides comprehensive commentaries on encephalitis. The different chapters of this book provide valuable and important information not only to the researchers, but also to the physician and health care workers.

The first section covers diagnosis and clinical symptoms of encephalitis with some neurological disorders.
The second section reviews some virus infections with the outlines of inflammatory and chemokine responses.
The third section deals with the non-viral causative agents of encephalitis.
The last section discusses the experimental model of encephalitis.

Contents
Preface
Part 1 Diagnosis and Clinical Symptoms of Encephalitis
1 Biomarkers of Encephalitis
2 Neuropathologic Diagnosis of Central Nervous System Viral Diseases
3 The Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Childhood Encephalitis: A Review of Cases from Middle-Eastern Countries
4 Encephalitis in Elderly Population
5 Language and Cognitive Impairments Associated with Encephalitis
6 The Value of Standardized Case Definitions in Encephalitis Clinical Research
Part 2 Virus Infections
7 The Inflammatory Response to Viral Infection of the Central Nervous System
8 Chemokines and Viral Infections of the CNS
9 Subacute Sclerosing Pan-Encephalitis (SSPE) - Past and Present
10 Herpes Simplex Myelitis: Differences in Clinical Manifestations Between Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 and Type 2
11 Astrocyte CD38: Links to Neuroinflammation in HAND
Part 3 Other Agents
12 Encephalitic Angiostrongyliasis
13 Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects of Cryptococcal Meningitis in West Africa
14 Clostridium Septicum Encephalitis: A Case Report
15 Superantigen-Mediated Encephalitis
16 Rasmussen's Encephalitis: An Overview
17 Clinical Aspects ofAnti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
18 Non-Herpetic Acute Limbic Encephalitis: A New Subgroup of Limbic Encephalitis?
Part 4 Experimental Model of Encephalitis
19 Experimental Model Systems to Define Mechanisms of Immune-Mediated Blood Brain Barrier Disruption in Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis (AHLE)
20 Development of Human and Macaque Antibodies Using Antibody Phage Display for the Detection of Equine Encephalitis Viruses
21 Modelling of Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis in a Non-Human Primate
22 Alternative Medicines for Encephalitis