Leukodystrophies

Gerald Raymond is a pediatric neurologist and research scientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute, Associate Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University and on the medical staff in the Department of Pediatrics and Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has been involved in the study of adrenoleukodystrophy and other peroxisomal disorders for over 15 years. Florian Eichler is Director of the Leukodystrophy Service at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. His research focus is on the genetics of peroxisomal disorders, lipid metabolism, and spatial aspects of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Ali Fatemi is a pediatric neurologist in the Division of Neurology and Developmental Medicine and an investigator at the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger. He is also Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University. His research interest is in genetic and acquired conditions that affect the brain’s white matter in newborns and infants. Sakkubai Naidu is a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and a Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has a special interest in developmental and neurogenetic disorders affecting children and adults.

• AUTHORS' APPOINTMENTS vii DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT xFOREWORD xiAnn Moser1 LEUKODYSTROPHY AND MYELIN 1Hugo Moser and Gerald V. Raymond2 MYELINATION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 5Grahame Kidd and Bruce D. Trapp3 THE ROLE OF ASTROCYTES IN WHITE MATTER DISEASE 37Jörg Dietrich and Chris Pröschel4 MICROGLIA AND LEUKODYSTROPHIES 60Patricia Musolino and Florian Eichler5 X-LINKED ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY 75Gerald V. Raymond6 KRABBE DISEASE (GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY) 90David A. Wenger7 ALEXANDER DISEASE 106Daniel Flint and Michael Brenner8 METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY 130Volkmar Gieselmann and Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann9 CANAVAN DISEASE 156Kimberlee Michals and Reuben Matalon10 PELIZAEUS–MERZBACHER DISEASE: GENETIC MODELS AND MECHANISMS 170Klaus-Armin Nave and Ajit Singh Dhaunchak11 THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES IN LEUKODYSTROPHIES 188Ali Fatemi and Charles Peters12 CLINICAL APPROACH TO IDENTIFICATION OF LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES 209Sakkubai Naidu, Genila Bibat and Doris LinINDEX 229COLOUR PLATES