AEA Research Review
Making the diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis (AE) can be very straightforward when the patient develops features that are highly characteristic of a particular AE. For example, a 30-year old woman with new onset psychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations or strange behaviors and who also has repetitive movements around their mouth in their face (known as […]
A recently published study is providing a close look at anti-LGI1 encephalitis which, after anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, is the second most common autoimmune encephalitis. Anti-LGI1 encephalitis most often affects middle aged patients who come to medical attention because of the quick onset (over a few weeks to a few months) of memory loss. Less commonly […]