The mother of a 12-year-old girl who took her own life after being sectioned has vowed that she will “never forgive” the doctors she blames for failing to diagnose an underlying brain disorder. Chloe ...

Fatigue, joint pain, rashes, brain fog or tingling in the hands and feet can seem like normal signs of aging—but they may also point to an autoimmune disease. These potentially disabling and often ...

“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain. What’s called autoimmune encephalitis attacks the organ that makes ...

Background: Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a kind of encephalitis mediated by the autoimmune response. There is no uniform standard for immunotherapy of this disease, especially for failure of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Roughly 30% of hospital admissions for encephalitis required repeat lumbar punctures. Diagnostic uncertainty is ...

ABSTRACT: Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a treatable autoimmune encephalitis that often presents with acute behavioral change or psychosis and rapidly evolves to ...

Last week marked the start of school. Social media is filled with images of children holding signs and flashing smiles. They seem hopeful, excited, and ready. But that is not the story for all of us.

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 ...

Psychiatric comorbidities were the strongest independent predictors of unfavourable outcomes in autoimmune encephalitis (AE); however, severe infections reflected acute disease severity rather than ...