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The cerebellum can be the primary organ for immune mediated insults perhaps more commonly than the rest of the brain. The reasons for this remain unclear. Perhaps this relates to the morphologically distinct classes of cells that are very different to the rest of the brain, as well as the complex and multiple connections it has with almost the whole of the rest of the central nervous system. This chapter will discuss a number of such immune mediated ataxias that include primary autoimmune cerebellar ataxia, gluten ataxia, anti-GAD ataxia and post infectious cerebellitis.

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  1. Academic Department of Neurosciences, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK

    Marios Hadjivassiliou

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  1. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Department, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

    Donna L. Gruol

  2. Department of Integrative Physiology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

    Noriyuki Koibuchi

  3. FNRS, ULB-Erasme, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Mario Manto

  4. Clinical Translational Research, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy

    Marco Molinari

  5. Ataxia Unit, Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit, Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, Department of Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Jeremy D. Schmahmann

  6. Department of Neurobiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

    Ying Shen

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Hadjivassiliou, M. (2016). Immune Diseases. In: Gruol, D., Koibuchi, N., Manto, M., Molinari, M., Schmahmann, J., Shen, Y. (eds) Essentials of Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24551-5_77

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