UAB Department of Neurology

Center for Neuroimmunology

Mission:

To foster clinical and fundamental research on neuroimmunologic processes and diseases.

To provide clinical and research training in neuroimmunology.

To evaluate and treat acute and chronic neurological and neuromuscular diseases which are caused by autoimmune mechanisms or linked to presumed abnormalities affecting the immune system.

Accomplishments:

There are a large number of diseases and processes affecting the nervous and neuromuscular systems. Primary diseases to be included for diagnosis and management will be the following:

multiple sclerosis,

Guillain-Barre' syndrome,

chronic polyneuropathies,

Lambert-Eaton syndrome

myasthenia gravis,

inflammatory myopathy, and

paraneoplastic neurological conditions.

Neuroimmunology/Multiple Sclerosis Fellowship