--as might be suspected. None of them were positive.

At the beginning of my neuropathic process, though, when I wa tested at Cornell-Weill, I was also given Dr. Latov's own ganglioside agglutinin test, which is a test that group developed to measure gross autoantibody activity. That was a weak positive, even though none of the specific "known" antibodies showed up. The speculation was that it may have picked up antibodies unique to me that were directed against nerve; the Cornell-Weill research department believes that such autoimmune mechanisms are responsible in at least some so-called "idiopathic" neuropathies.