In this Case Study, the authors describe paraneoplastic psychosis and catatonia in a patient with encephalitis associated with an immature teratoma of the ovary and NMDA receptor antibodies.

Paraneoplastic anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is potentially lethal, but usually reversible if promptly recognized and treated. It should be suspected in young women with prominent psychiatric ...

It began after my once extremely intelligent, robust, and outgoing husband, Dougie—my gentle giant—fell ill with a severe type of autoimmune encephalitis (paraneoplastic).

The differential diagnosis for rhombencephalitis (Table 1) includes infectious, inflammatory, demyelinating, paraneoplastic, and drug-induced etiologies. 1 Although the overall population-level ...

In paraneoplastic syndromes, they also attack healthy cells. Not everyone with a neurologic paraneoplastic syndrome has antibodies. But if they’re present, it’s a good sign you have the syndrome.

Researchers from the University of Texas reported the case of a patient with myasthenia gravis (MG) who had thymoma treatment and who developed anti-α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic ...

Source: Sharma V, et al. Association of ovarian dysfunction and psychosis in adolescent females: A review. Presented at: American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting; May 4-8, 2024; New York.

Paraneoplastic encephalitis (PE) represents a rare but significant complication in patients with testicular cancer (TC). Given the paucity of comprehensive literature on this topic, our review seeks ...

It can be triggered by an infection elsewhere in the body (post-infectious autoimmune encephalitis) or a tumor (paraneoplastic autoimmune encephalitis). But in about 90% of cases, the cause is not ...

Autoimmune encephalitis (AIE) represents a category of relatively newly described neurological disorders associated with an increasing prevalence, a significant impact on the healthcare system, and a ...

Post-shingles encephalitis can cause headache, fever, sensitivity to light, vomiting, confusion, a stiff neck or even seizures. It can also leave some patients with more lasting problems.