^○Toshiyuki Hayashi¹, Shunya Nakane¹, Akihiro Mukaino², Makoto Yamakawa³, Osamu Higuchi⁴, Hidenori Matsuo⁵, Kazumi Kimura¹ (1.Department of Neurology, Nippon Medical School Hospital, Japan, 2.Department of Japanese Oriental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 3.Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 4.Department of Clinical Research, NHO Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center, 5.Department of Neurology, NHO Nagasaki Hospital)

^○Yohei Yamamoto^1,2, Naoko Matsui¹, Keiko Tanaka³, Makoto Matsui⁴, Satoshi Kuwabara⁵, Yuishin Izumi¹ (1.Department of Neurology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan, 2.Department of Neurology, Takamatsu Red Cross hospital, Japan, 3.Department of Neurology, Bain research Institute, Niigata University, 4.Department of Neurology, Houju Memorial Hospital, 5.Department of Neurology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine)

^○Satoshi Nozuma¹, Eiji Matsuura¹, Masakazu Tanaka², Daisuke Kodama², Toshio Matsuzaki², Ryuji Kubota², Hiroshi Takashima¹ (1.Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Japan, 2.Viral Immunology Section, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke, National Institutes of Health)

^○Kazumi Okamura¹, Ichiro Nakashima², Hidekazu Kikui³, Kazuo Fujihara^4,5 (1.Medical Affairs, Alexion Pharma GK, Japan, 2.Department of Neurology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 3.Drug Safety, Alexion Pharma GK, 4.Department of Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 5.Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica Center, Southern TOHOKU Research Institute for Neuroscience (STRINS))

^○Shuns Hirohata^1,2, Hirotoshi Kikuchi² (1.Nobuhara Hospital, Japan, 2.Seikyo University School of Medicine, Japan)

^○Hiroaki Yoshikawa¹, Yosikazu Nakamura², Nagato Kuriyama³, Hiroyuki Murai⁴, Yasunari Sakai⁵, Yoshiko Nomura⁶, Yumi Adachi¹, Kazuo Iwasa⁷, Yutaka Furukawa⁸, Akitaka Higashi⁸, Makoto Matsui⁹, Satoshi Kuwabara¹⁰ (1.Kanazawa University Health Service Center, Japan, 2.Chiba University, 3.Jichi Medical University, 4.Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health, 5.International University of Health and Welfare, 6.Kyushu University, 7.Yoshiko Nomura Neurological Clinic for Children, 8.Ishikawa Prefectural Nursing University, 9.Kanazawa University, 10.Kanazawa Medical University)