Background: The novelty of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, for which somatic treatments have only recently been developed, has led to a lack of information on assessment and treatment of its variable behavioral manifestations. Method: In this article, we discuss 4 challenging cases of anti-NMDAR ...
while encephalitis is an inflammation of your brain tissue, meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes that cover your brain and spinal cord (called meninges). Like encephalitis, meningitis is often caused by a viral or bacterial infection, but it can also be caused by fungal or parasitic...
These include antibodies against voltage-gated potassium channel (VGKC) complexes, anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antibodies (linked to anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis), and antibodies against additional neuronal targets such as LGI1 and CASPR2. Systemic autoimmune disorders: Diseases such ...
Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. Often misdiagnosed as other psychotic conditions, this autoimmune disease causes the body to disrupt normal brain signals and makes the brain swell. While people tend to have less serious symptoms at first, their condition often worsens quickly, requiring hospitalization...
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ANTI-NMDA receptor encephalitisMEDICAL personnelEMERGENCY room visitsSYMPTOMSMAGNETIC resonance imagingCEREBROSPINAL fluidKey Clinical Message: Prompt identification and management of anti‐N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor encephalitis in young patients with acute psychiatric symptoms, seizures, and ...
Electroconvulsive therapy can improve psychotic symptoms in anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis ANTI-N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE (NMDA) RECEPTOR encephalitis has recently been described as paraneoplastic encephalitis often associated with ovarian teratoma.1 ... Y Abe,T Matsumoto,K Matsumoto,... - 《Psychiatry & ...
N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antibodies IgG antibodies to the extracellular N-terminal domain of the NR1 subunit of the NMDAR are associated with NMDAR antibody encephalitis. First described in 2007 in young women presenting with neuropsychiatric symptoms in the presence of an ovarian teratom...
Results. Themost common form is anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a severe brain disorder with characteristic clinical development of symptoms, including psychosis, hyperkinesia, autonomic instability, epileptic seizures, and memory impairment. In addition, recognition of antibodies against LGI1, Caspr2, ...
anti‐N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor encephalitispsychiatric symptomsdelayed diagnosisKeywords: anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis; psychiatric symptoms; delayed diagnosisdoi:10.1002/mdc3.12095Kim, Seung WooLee, Hyung SeokLee, Phil Hyu