Infections, inflammation and epilepsy

A Vezzani, RS Fujinami, HS White, PM Preux… - Acta …, 2016 - Springer
Epilepsy is the tendency to have unprovoked epileptic seizures. Anything causing structural
or functional derangement of brain physiology may lead to seizures, and different conditions …

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 …

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 …

Anti-MOG antibody: the history, clinical phenotype, and pathogenicity of a serum biomarker for demyelination

S Ramanathan, RC Dale, F Brilot - Autoimmunity reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) is a protein exclusively expressed on the
surface of oligodendrocytes and myelin in the central nervous system. MOG has been …

Seizure outcomes in patients with anti‐NMDAR encephalitis: a follow‐up study

X Liu, B Yan, R Wang, C Li, C Chen, D Zhou… - Epilepsia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To evaluate the long‐term seizure outcome and potential factors associated with
seizure outcome in patients with anti‐N‐methyl‐d‐aspartate receptor (anti‐NMDAR) …

Use of clinical and neuroimaging characteristics to distinguish temporal lobe herpes simplex encephalitis from its mimics

FC Chow, CA Glaser, H Sheriff, D Xia… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background. We describe the spectrum of etiologies associated with temporal lobe (TL)
encephalitis and identify clinical and radiologic features that distinguish herpes simplex …

The autoantibody-mediated encephalitides: from clinical observations to molecular pathogenesis

S Ramanathan, A Al-Diwani, P Waters, SR Irani - Journal of Neurology, 2021 - Springer
The autoimmune encephalitis (AE) syndromes have been characterised by the detection of
autoantibodies in serum and/or cerebrospinal fluid which target the extracellular domains of …

Expanding role of T cells in human autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system

D Pilli, A Zou, F Tea, RC Dale, F Brilot - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
It is being increasingly recognized that a dysregulation of the immune system plays a vital
role in neurological disorders and shapes the treatment of the disease. Aberrant T cell …

Antineuronal antibodies in a heterogeneous group of youth and young adults with tics and obsessive-compulsive disorder

CJ Cox, AJ Zuccolo, EV Edwards… - Journal of child and …, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Background and objective: Antineuronal antibodies have been implicated in tic and
obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD) associated with group A streptococcal infections. We …

[HTML][HTML] AI-CoV study: autoimmune encephalitis associated with COVID-19 and its vaccines—a systematic review

MM Samim, D Dhar, S Goyal, T Dey… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background and Purpose Autoimmune encephalitis (AIE) following coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) is an underexplored condition. This study aims to systematically review …