The importance of early immunotherapy in patients with faciobrachial dystonic seizures

J Thompson, M Bi, AG Murchison, M Makuch, CG Bien… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Faciobrachial dystonic seizures and limbic encephalitis closely associate with antibodies to
leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1). Here, we describe 103 consecutive patients with …

Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes in the era of immune-checkpoint inhibitors

F Graus, J Dalmau - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2019 - nature.com
Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNSs) comprise a group of disorders that can
affect any part of the nervous system in patients with cancer and frequently result from …

Acute and non-resolving inflammation associate with oxidative injury after human spinal cord injury

T Zrzavy, C Schwaiger, I Wimmer, T Berger, J Bauer… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Traumatic spinal cord injury is a devastating insult followed by progressive cord atrophy and
neurodegeneration. Dysregulated or non-resolving inflammatory processes can disturb …

GAD antibodies in neurological disorders—insights and challenges

F Graus, A Saiz, J Dalmau - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Antibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) have been associated with several
neurological syndromes, including stiff-person syndrome, cerebellar ataxia and epilepsy …

Autoimmune encephalopathies

F Leypoldt, T Armangue… - Annals of the New York …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past 10 years, the continual discovery of novel forms of encephalitis associated
with antibodies to cell‐surface or synaptic proteins has changed the paradigms for …

Autoimmune encephalitis: pathophysiology and imaging review of an overlooked diagnosis

BP Kelley, SC Patel, HL Marin… - American Journal …, 2017 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Autoimmune encephalitis is a relatively new category of immune-mediated disease
involving the central nervous system that demonstrates a widely variable spectrum of clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Autoimmune seizures and epilepsy

C Geis, J Planagumà, M Carreño… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The rapid expansion in the number of encephalitis disorders associated with autoantibodies
against neuronal proteins has led to an incremental increase in use of the term “autoimmune …

Treatment strategies for autoimmune encephalitis

YW Shin, ST Lee, KI Park, KH Jung… - Therapeutic …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Autoimmune encephalitis is one of the most rapidly growing research topics in neurology.
Along with discoveries of novel antibodies associated with the disease, clinical experience …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebrospinal fluid findings in patients with autoimmune encephalitis—a systematic analysis

T Blinder, J Lewerenz - Frontiers in neurology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Autoimmune encephalitides (AIE) comprise a group of inflammatory diseases of the central
nervous system (CNS), which can be further characterized by the presence of different …

Faciobrachial dystonic seizures: the influence of immunotherapy on seizure control and prevention of cognitive impairment in a broadening phenotype

SR Irani, CJ Stagg, JM Schott, CR Rosenthal… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Voltage-gated potassium channel complex antibodies, particularly those directed against
leucine-rich glioma inactivated 1, are associated with a common form of limbic encephalitis …