Antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases of the CNS: challenges and approaches to diagnosis and management

E Sechi, EP Flanagan - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Antibody-mediated disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) are increasingly
recognized as neurologic disorders that can be severe and even life-threatening but with the …

GAD antibody-spectrum disorders: progress in clinical phenotypes, immunopathogenesis and therapeutic interventions

P Tsiortou, H Alexopoulos… - Therapeutic advances in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Antibodies against glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), originally linked to stiff person
syndrome (SPS), now denote the “GAD antibody-spectrum disorders”(GAD-SD) that also …

Current nosology of neural autoantibody-associated dementia

N Hansen - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background The detection of neural autoantibodies in patients with cognitive decline is an
increasingly frequent phenomenon in memory clinics, and demanding as it does a specific …

[HTML][HTML] Predictors and prognoses of epilepsy after anti-neuronal antibody-positive autoimmune encephalitis

S Chen, Y Zhang, Q Di, J Shi, L Wang, X Lin, N Yu - Seizure, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose This study aimed to investigate the incidence and predictors of epilepsy after anti-
neuronal antibody-positive autoimmune encephalitis (AIE). The clinical outcomes of patients …

Autoimmune neurology: the need for comprehensive care

JR Abbatemarco, SJ Rodenbeck, GS Day… - Neurology …, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Autoimmune neurology is a rapidly developing specialty driven by an increasing recognition
of autoimmunity as the cause for a broad set of neurologic disorders and ongoing discovery …

Brain and muscle metabolic changes by FDG-PET in stiff person syndrome spectrum disorders

Y Wang, MS Sadaghiani, F Tian, KC Fitzgerald… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Objective: To report clinical characteristics and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission
tomography (FDG-PET) findings in the brain and muscles of individuals with stiff person …

Uncommon inflammatory/immune-related myelopathies

C Valencia-Sanchez, EP Flanagan - Journal of neuroimmunology, 2021 - Elsevier
The differential diagnosis for immune-mediated myelopathies is broad. Although clinical
manifestations overlap, certain presentations are suggestive of a particular myelopathy …