Meet the editor

Professor Kunihiro Sakuma, PhD, currently works at the Institute for Liberal Arts at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a physiologist working in the field of skeletal muscle. He was awarded a sports science diploma in 1995 by the University of Tsukuba and started scientific work at the Department of Physiology, Aichi Human Service Center, focusing on the molecular mechanism of congenital muscular dystrophy and normal

muscle regeneration. His interest later turned to the molecular mechanism and attenuating strategy of sarcopenia (age-related muscle atrophy). His ambition is to attenuate sarcopenia by improving autophagic defects using nutrient- and pharmaceutical-based treatments.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

Muscular Dystrophy

*by Yukihiko Ueda*

*by Kunihiro Sakuma*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

The Diagnosis of Muscular Dystrophy **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

Muscular Dystrophy and Central Nervous System **33**

**Chapter 3 35**

**Chapter 4 51** Electrophysiological Assessment of CNS Abnormalities in Muscular Dystrophy

**Chapter 5 61**

Therapeutic Approaches for Muscular Dystrophy **75**

**Chapter 6 77**

Physical Exercise as a Tool to Delay the Development Process of Duchenne

*by Samuel Alexandre Almeida Honório, Marco Batista, Jorge Santos, João Petrica,* 

Introductory Chapter: Muscular Dystrophy and Recent Therapeutic Strategy

Clinical and Molecular Diagnosis in Muscular Dystrophies

Cognitive Function and Quality of Life of Muscular Dystrophy

Ocular Pathology of Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

*Helena Mesquita, João Serrano, Jaime Ribeiro and Júlio Martins*

*by Tomoko Yamamoto, Yoichiro Kato and Noriyuki Shibata*

*by Stefan M. Golaszewski and Raffaele Nardone*

*by Gisela Gaina, Magdalena Budisteanu, Emilia Manole and Elena Ionica*
