NMDAR Antibodies and New-Onset Epilepsy

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-23-5-8

NMDAR Antibodies and New-Onset Epilepsy

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 23 (2009): Issue 5

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|May 2009

Abstract

The frequency and significance of antibodies to NMDAR were determined in 19 adolescents and young women, aged 15 to 45 years, with unexplained new-onset epilepsies, seen between Jan 2005 and June 2007 at the University of Bonn, Germany; Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.

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Dalmau J Gleichman AJ Hughes EG Rossi JE Peng X Lai M Anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis: case series and analysis of the effects of antibodies Lancet Neurol 2008 Dec 7 12 1091 8 10.1016/S1474-4422(08)70224-2 18851928
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-23-5-8 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 39 - 39

Published on: May 1, 2009

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Psychiatric Symptoms,

Immunoglobulin Treatment,

Cryptogenic Epilepsies

© 2009 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 23 (2009): Issue 5