Takashi Yamamura¹, Ingo Kleiter², Kazuo Fujihara³, Jacqueline Palace⁴, Greenberg Benjamin⁵, Beata Zakrzewska-pniewska⁶, Francesco Patti⁷, Tsai Ching-piao⁸, Albert Saiz⁹, Yusuke Terada¹⁰, Yuichi Kawata¹⁰, Padraig Wright¹¹, Jerome De Seze¹² (1.Department of Immunology, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, 2.Department of Neurology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, 3.Department of Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis & Neuromyelitis Optica Center, Southern TOHOKU Research Institute for Neuroscience, 4.Department of Clinical Neurology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, 5.Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA, 6.Department of Neurology, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland, 7.Department G.F. Ingrassia-section of Neurosciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, 8.Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, 9.Service of Neurology, Hospital Clinic and Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 10.Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, 11.Chugai Pharma Europe, 12.Department of Neurology, Hôpital de Hautepierre, Strasbourg Cedex, France)

Yoshihide Sunada¹, Yutaka Ohsawa¹, Mitsue Rikimaru¹, Yuta Fukai¹, Masahiro Fujino², Shin-ichiro Nishimatsu³, Shigeo Ohta⁴ (1.Department of Neurology, Kawasaki Medical School, Japan, 2.Department of Health and Sports Science, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Japan, 3.Department of Natural Science, Kawasaki Medical School, Japan, 4.Department of Neurology, Juntendo University, Japan)

Yasuo Toda¹, Ikuko Aiba², Tatsuhiko Yuasa³, John O'gorman⁴, Lili Yang⁴, Tina Olsson⁴, Samantha Budd Haeberlein⁴, Tien Dam⁴ (1.Biogen Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 2.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization, Higashinagoya National Hospital, Nagoya, Japan, 3.Kamagaya General Hospital, Kamagaya, Japan, 4.Biogen Cambridge MA USA)

Yuka Hama¹, Hidetoshi Date¹, Yuji Takahashi¹, Hidehiro Mizusawa¹, Japan Consortium of Ataxias² (1.Department of Neurology, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Hospital, Japan, 2.J-CAT (Japan Consortium of Ataxias))

Manabu Araki¹, Kazuo Fujihara², Ching-piao Tsai³, Masayuki Haramura⁴, Yusuke Terada⁴, Yuichi Kawata⁴, Takashi Yamamura⁵ (1.Department of neurology, Department of Immunology, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan, 2.Department of Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis & Neuromyelitis Optica Center, Southern TOHOKU Research Institute for Neuroscience, 3.Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, 4.Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, 5.Department of Immunology, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)

Hiroshi Takigawa¹, Takeshi Ikeuchi², Ikuko Aiba³, Mitsuya Morita⁴, Osamu Onodera⁵, Takayoshi Shimohata⁶, Takahiko Tokuda⁷, Shigeo Murayama⁸, Kazuko Hasegawa⁹, Hisanori Kowa¹⁰, Aya M. Tokumaru¹¹, Ritsuko Hanajima¹, Kenji Nakashima¹⁰, JALPAC study group^2,10 (1.Division of Neurology, Department of Brain and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan, 2.Molecular Genetics, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 3.Depatrment of Neurology, National Hospital Organization, Higashinagoya National Hospital, 4.Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Jichi Medical University, 5.Department of Neurology, Clinical Neuroscience Branch, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 6.Depatrment of Neurology and Geriatrics, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, 7.Department of Molecular Pathobiology of Brain Diseases, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 8.Department of Neurology and Neuropathology (the Brain Bank for Aging Research), Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, 9.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization, Sagamihara National Hospital, 10.Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization, Matsue Medical Center, 11.Department of Diagnostic Radiology Neurology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology)