Hiroyuki Murai^1,12, Masayuki Masuda^2,12, Angela Genge^3,12, Yessar Hussain^4,12, Henry J. Kaminski^5,12, M. Isabel Leite^6,12, Renato Mantegazza^7,12, Kimiaki Utsugisawa^8,12, Tuan Vu^9,12, Melissa Brock¹⁰, Babak Boroojerdi¹⁰, Mark Vanderkelen¹⁰, Guillemette De La Borderie¹⁰, Petra W. Duda¹⁰, James F. Howard Jr.^11,12 (1.Department of Neurology, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan, 2.1Department of Neurology, Tokyo Medical University, Japan, 3.Clinical Research Unit, The Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada, 4.Department of Neurology, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, 5.George Washington University, Washington, USA, 6.Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK, 7.Neuroimmunology and Neuromuscular Diseases Department, Italy, 8.Department of Neurology, Hanamaki General Hospital, Japan, 9.Department of Neurology, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, USA, 10.UCB Pharma, Other country, 11.Department of Neurology, The University College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, 12.RAISE Study Investigators, Other country)

Genya Watanabe¹, Moeko Arai², Aki Yasaka³, Mizuki Otomo¹, Takafumi Kubota¹, Kenichi Tsukita¹, Yasushi Suzuki¹ (1.National Hospital Organization Sendai Medical Center, Japan, 2.Tome Citizen Hospital, Japan, 3.Public Katta general hospital, Japan)

Yukihiro Hamada¹, Masaki Yamana¹, Toru Michiura², Syuichi Ueno¹ (1.Neurology of Izumi-city General Hospital, Japan, 2.Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Kindai University, Japan)

Hisashi Narai, Yoshio Omote, Motonori Takamiya, Yasuhiro Manabe (Department of Neurology, Okayama medical center, Japan)

Kazuki Yoshizumi¹, Shohei Watanabe¹, Takashi Kimura¹, Tomoya Kubota², Akiyuki Uzawa³, Naoki Kawaguchi³, Masayuki Masuda⁴, Shingo Konno⁵, Naoya Minami⁶, Makoto Samukawa⁷, Genya Watanabe⁸, Yasushi Suzuki⁸, Yuriko Nagane¹⁰, Masanori Takahashi², Shigeaki Suzuki⁹, Kimiaki Utsugisawa¹⁰ (1.Department of Neurology, Hyogo Medical University, Japan, 2.Department of Clinical Laboratory and Biomedical Science, Osaka University, Japan, 3.Department of Neurology, Chiba University, Japan, 4.Department of Neurology, Tokyo Medical University, Japan, 5.Department of Neurology, Toho University Medical Center Oh-Hashi Hospital, Japan, 6.Department of Neurology, Hokkaido Medical Center, Japan, 7.Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Japan, 8.Department of Neurology, Sendai Medical Center,, Japan, 9.Department of Neurology, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan, 10.Department of Neurology, Hanamaki General Hospital, Japan)

Akiko Ishii, Shogo Ouchi, Tetsu Suzuki, Izummi Mihashi, Hana Takahashi, Kouta Igari, Myuko Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuji, Kiyotaka Nakamagoe, Yasushi Tomidokoro, Kazuhiro Ishii (Depatment of Neurology, University of Tsukuba, Japan)