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Aug 30, 2018 · Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and damage in the brain. Learn about its symptoms, diagnosis and treatment from a neurologist at Baptist Health Neuroscience Center.
Jul 10, 2019 · Scientists at OHSU have developed a mouse model for anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a brain disease that causes memory loss and seizures. The model could help identify the site of immune attack and develop new treatments for the disease.
Jul 19, 2021 · She is the protagonist of the movie which vividly dramatises a presentation characterised by psychotic symptoms with an underlying oft-underdiagnosed autoimmune pathology. Her symptoms included subtle perceptual disturbances, fatigue, depressed mood and apparent withdrawal.
- Soumitra Das, Karishma Kulkarni
- 10.1136/gpsych-2021-100504
- 2021
- Gen Psychiatr. 2021; 34(4): e100504.
Mar 5, 2020 · Kassidy Anderson, a college student, suffered from severe headaches, memory loss and strange episodes for months. Her doctor, Michael Vaphiades, M.D., suspected anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disease, and found a teratoma tumor that was causing it.
Nov 5, 2022 · After a spate of numbness, sleeplessness, wild mood swings, psychosis and seizures, she spent a month in the hospital, misdiagnosed with serious mental illness, before doctors discovered she was...
Nov 14, 2012 · As Najjar put it to her parents, "her brain was on fire." This discovery led to her eventual diagnosis and treatment for anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disease that can attack ...
The film is based on Susannah Cahalan's memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness and stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Jenny Slate, Thomas Mann, Tyler Perry, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Richard Armitage. The film follows the true story of a New York Post writer who begins to experience a mysterious illness .
