Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cognitive recovery was greatest within the first 6 months of diagnosis, persisting up to 36 months. After the 36 ...

October 20, 2008 – Tumor removal and immunotherapy can reverse anti-NMDA–receptor encephalitis, researchers show. Reporting in an early release published online October 11 in Lancet Neurology, ...

Latoya McDonald's symptoms started relatively small. McDonald, 40, of Baltimore, Maryland, noticed that she was forgetting things, like picking up her daughter from school, and she started falling ...

The N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDAR) are cation channels in the brain that play important roles in the transmission of nerve impulses and neuronal plasticity. These ligand-gated channels have ...

It remains difficult to distinguish anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis from a primary psychiatric disorder, but recent studies have identified clinical features and proposed screening criteria that could ...

In autoimmune encephalitis, a rare but serious and sometimes life-threatening inflammation of the central nervous system, the body’s own defences are directed against the central nervous system. This ...

Two weeks before kindergarten graduation, 5-year-old Nathan Camargo had his first seizure. The El Paso boy was eventually diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis, a condition where his immune system ...

Arialys Therapeutics' precision medicine has shown preclinical potential to address the underlying cause of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (ANRE), a rare brain disorder that comes with severe ...

April Braker, a 30-year-old registered nurse, was four classes away from completing her master's degree and on her way to becoming a nurse practitioner. It was May 2018 and she had just started a new ...

A young woman's weeklong bout of "strange behavior" was caused by a rare disease in which the immune system attacks the brain, according to a new report of the woman's case. The 27-year-old woman went ...