Atlas of Neuromuscular Diseases

Univ. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Grisold, is a specialist for neurology and psychiatry. Special interests are general neurology, neurooncology, neuromuscular disease, education, and patient related issues such as pain, palliative care, and advocacy. He has experience in hospital practice, research, and private practice. He has participated in EU projects on paraneoplastic syndromes. His scientific focus is on the effect of cancer on the peripheral nervous system, in particular peripheral neurotoxicity and the direct effects of cancer. In regard to neuromuscular disease, he has experience with neuromuscular diseases, such as autoimmune diseases, in particular myasthenia gravis and inflammatory neuropathies. He has much experience in neuromuscular clinics, and practices electrophysiology. He is involved in several international neurological societies and is the secretary general of the World Federation of Neurology. He has organized several international neurological congresses, among them the EANO congress in 2006, and the ICNMD 2018. He currently has more than 600 publications, 250 pubmed quoted, and 7 books. (Neuromuskuläre Läsionen bei Malignomen (German); Praktische Neuroonkologie (German); Atlas of neuromuscular disease, 2 editions; Neuromuscular complications of cancer; and Neuro-Oncology, Part I and II, Volume 105, jointly with R. Soffietti, in 2012; Advocacy in Neurology, 2019.)