Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I Diagnosis of acquired myopathies -- Auto-Antibodies in Neuromuscular Disorders -- Electromyography -- Imaging of the Muscle -- Peripheral Nerve Ultrasound -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Peripheral Nerve -- Part II Clinical Entities -- The Spectrum of Inflammatory Myopathies: Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Necrotizing Myositis and Inclusion Body Myositis -- Necrotising Myopathy -- Statin Myopathy -- Myasthenia Gravis -- Acquired Autoimmune Rippling Muscles with Myasthenia Gravis -- Endocrinological Myopathies -- Vitamin D deficiency in Muscle -- Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness -- Part III Neurogenic disorders -- Idiopathic Chronic Immune-Mediated Neuropathies: Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy and Multifocal Motor Neuropathy -- GBS Immune Neuropathies -- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Epidemiology and Risk Factors -- Paraneoplastic Diseases of the Peripheral Nervous System -- Diabetic Neuropathy -- Infectious Neuropathies -- Toxic Neuropathies.