A newly diagnosed brain disease that is infecting mostly young women may be behind some misdiagnosed psychological disorders, according to some experts. Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis ...

Aciclovir 10 mg/kg body weight every 8 hours was started for possible herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis. MRI fluid-attenuated ... Paraneoplastic anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is ...

In anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, antibodies interfere with signal transmission in the brain. The receptors which the neurotransmitters glutamate and glycine bind to are internalized by the ...

It’s called “brain-on-fire” disease or anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It’s a rare neurological disorder that can cause inflammation in the brain. It occurs when the body’s immune ...

The brain is one such place ... The rare disease Arialys plans to treat first is anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (ANRE). It’s a form of encephalitis caused by autoantibodies produced by B ...

Onyx was diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (NMDARE), an autoimmune condition in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks the brain, causing symptoms like psychosis ...

Encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain often caused by infections ... In one study involving 61 patients with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, those who received psychiatric care were eight ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) and autoimmune synaptic encephalitis ... D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor AE. The AMPA and NMDA receptors mediate excitatory neurotransmission in the brain, explained the ...

Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis is a neurological autoimmune disease which causes inflammation of the brain. The body creates antibodies against the NMDA receptors in the brain - and these ...

In a study published in Cell, a research team led by Zhu Shujia from the Center for Excellence in Brain ... NMDA receptors, ...

NMDAR = N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor; VGKC = voltage-gated potassium channel a In some patients with paraneoplastic anti-NMDAR encephalitis, the possibilities of bacterial infections, HIV ...