Neurovirology

Section 1 Introduction
1. A history of viral infections of the central nervous system: Foundations, milestones, and patterns
2. Basics of virology
3. Neuroepidemiology and the epidemiology of viral infections of the nervous system
4. Clinical approach to the syndromes of encephalitis, myelitis and meningitis
5. Laboratory diagnosis of viral disease
6. Neuroimaging of viral infections of the central nervous system
7. Viral neuropathogenesis
8. Neuropathology of viral infections
9. Innate immune viral recognition: Relevance to CNS infections
10. Adaptive immune response to viral infections in the central nervous system
Section 2 DNA viruses
11. Herpes simplex virus
12. Varicella zoster
13. Epstein-Barr virus infections of the nervous system
14. Cytomegalovirus infections of the adult human nervous system
15. Congenital cytomegalovirus infection
16. Human herpesvirus-6 and the nervous system
17. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Section 3 RNA viruses
18. Enterovirus/picornavirus infections
19. The equine encephalitides
20. West Nile and St. Louis encephalitis viruses
21. The Bunyaviridae
22. Human endogenous retroviruses and the nervous system
23. Central nervous system HIV-1 infection
24. Neurological disease due to HTLV-1 infection
25. Tick-borne encephalitis
26. Japanese encephalitis virus infection
27. Measles virus and the nervous system
28. Mumps and rubella
29. Rabies
30. Neurologic aspects of influenza viruses
31. Neurological complications of hepatic viruses
32. Henipavirus encephalitis
33. Diseases of the central nervous system caused by lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus and other arenaviruses
Section 4 Other topics concerning viral or presumed viral infections of the CNS
34. Nervous system viral infections in immunocompromised hosts
35. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
36. Vaccines and viral / toxin associated neurological infections
37. Encephalitis lethargica (von Economo's encephalitis)
38. Bell's

Tselis, Alex C.
I graduated with a B Sc in physics from McGill University in Montreal in 1978. I obtained my PhD in physics from Brown University in 1983. After postdoctoral work at Purdue University, I entered medical school at the University of Miami in Florida, graduating with my MD in 1987. I trained in clinical neurology at Northwestern University and Duke University, followed by postdoctoral training in neurovirology at the University of Pennsylvania, 1991-1994. Since 1994 I have been on the faculty at the Department of Neurology at Wayne State University. Booss, John
My laboratory work had been in the virology of the nervous system and in viral immunology with emphasis on the cytomegaloviruses. Clinically my interests had been in viral encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, and HIV of the nervous system. From 1993 until my retirement in 2005, I was the National Program Director for Neurology for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Our goal was to have neurological services coordinated nationally. During that time we were able to establish national centers of excellence for Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. Just after my retirement, a coalition of organizations led by the American Academy of Neurology convinced the Congress to establish national VA centers of excellence in epilepsy. I am presently interested in historical subjects including historical virology: see for example To Catch a Virus, Booss and August, ASM Press, 2013; and Neurovirology in the Elsevier series Handbook of Clinical Neurology, eds, Tselis and Booss, forthcoming, 2014.