Mitochondrial disease in neurology-Past, present, and future

Handb Clin Neurol. 2023:194:3-6. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-821751-1.00001-4.

Abstract

This chapter provides a overview of this volume of the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, placing recent advances in our understanding of mitochondrial disorders in a historical context, and speculates about the future.

Keywords: Clinical medicine; Diagnosis; Genomics; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial diseases; Neurology; Treatments; mtDNA.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • DNA, Mitochondrial
  • Humans
  • Mitochondria / genetics
  • Mitochondrial Diseases*
  • Mutation
  • Neurology*

Substances

  • DNA, Mitochondrial