Imagine you wake up in a hospital without a single memory of the last month. Doctors say you had a series of violent episodes and paranoid delusions. You'd become convinced you were suffering from ...

NMDA-receptor antibodies (NMDAR-Abs) cause an autoimmune encephalitis with a diverse range of EEG abnormalities. NMDAR-Abs are believed to disrupt receptor function, but how blocking this excitatory ...

NMDAR antibodies are present in serum and CSF, usually with intrathecal synthesis, and are sometimes only detected in the CSF. The main target epitopes are in the NR1/NR2 heteromers of the NMDAR. The ...

A rare brain condition that can mimic psychosis is the focus of new research. Researchers led by Dr Adam Al-Diwani at the University of Oxford have developed a scoring system to help clinicians ...

Encephalitis is a potentially life-threatening condition that involves inflammation of the brain. While some cases of encephalitis are caused by a bacterial or viral infection, other cases of ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Furukawa lab is studying an autoimmune disease called anti-NMDAR encephalitis in collaboration with Professor Christian Geis’ team at the University of Jena and the ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Furukawa lab is studying an autoimmune disease called anti-NMDAR encephalitis in collaboration with Professor Christian Geis’ team at the University of Jena and the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Early and short-term rituximab may be an option to treat patients with certain forms of autoimmune encephalitis, ...

For 1 week, a 34-year-old woman complained of headache, feeling feverish, and being unsure of herself. She attributed these symptoms to stress and anxiety and took two of her husband's alprazolam ...