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Neuroinflammation — a common thread in neurological disorders

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Inflammatory processes contribute to neurological disorders, and many therapeutic breakthroughs in neurological disease have been immune-targeted. The choice of neuroinflammation as the theme for the 5th European Academy of Neurology Congress in 2019 and of this Focus issue highlights its importance to neurologists across the discipline.

In recent years, inflammatory processes have been found to be involved in the aetiopathology of many neurological disorders. Details of immune responses have been elucidated and, as a result, new and effective treatments have become available for neuroinflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), additional neuroimmunological disorders have been defined, and roles for the immune system have been identified in common, non-immunological disorders, such as stroke, Alzheimer disease (AD), migraine and epilepsy.

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The authors thank F. Fazekas, President of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), for preparing the theme of neuroinflammation and the 5th EAN Congress. N.E.G. is a member of the local organizing committee of the 5th EAN Congress. G.D. is the Past-President of the EAN.

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  1. Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Nils Erik Gilhus

  2. Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

    Nils Erik Gilhus

  3. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig Hostein, Kiel Campus, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

    Günther Deuschl

  4. European Academy of Neurology, Vienna, Austria

    Günther Deuschl

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Gilhus, N.E., Deuschl, G. Neuroinflammation — a common thread in neurological disorders. Nat Rev Neurol 15, 429–430 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-019-0227-8

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