Peripheral Nerves and Difficult to Diagnose Neurological Diseases

This program discusses peripheral nerve diseases, including the anatomy of the central and peripheral nervous systems by Dr. Maggie Waung. Peripheral nerves control sensory, motor and autonomic functions and can regenerate though very slowly. Dr. Michael Wilson discusses difficult to diagnose neurological disease cases using advances in genomic testing, metagenomics for neuroinfectious disease, cancer and autoantibody detection for inflammatory conditions. Recorded on 03/24/2022. [Show ID: 37858]

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00:15 Maggie Waung, MD, PhD
21:36 Michael Wilson, MD

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