Diagnostic criteria for autoimmune encephalitis: utility and pitfalls for antibody-negative disease

J Dalmau, F Graus - The Lancet Neurology, 2023 - thelancet.com
Increased awareness of autoimmune encephalitis has led to two unintended consequences:
a high frequency of misdiagnoses and the inappropriate use of diagnostic criteria for …

Chronic effects of inflammation on tauopathies

C Langworth-Green, S Patel, Z Jaunmuktane… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Tauopathies are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders that are
characterised by the aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein tau into filamentous …

Microglia mediate neurocognitive deficits by eliminating C1q-tagged synapses in sepsis-associated encephalopathy

HY Chung, J Wickel, N Hahn, N Mein… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE) is a severe and frequent complication of sepsis
causing delirium, coma, and long-term cognitive dysfunction. We identified microglia and …

Mimics of autoimmune encephalitis: Validation of the 2016 clinical autoimmune encephalitis criteria

RW Van Steenhoven, JM de Vries… - Neurology …, 2023 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives The clinical criteria for autoimmune encephalitis (AE) were
proposed by Graus et al. in 2016. In this study, the AE criteria were validated in the real …

Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes of the central nervous system: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment

L Marsili, S Marcucci, J LaPorta, M Chirra, AJ Espay… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) include any symptomatic and non-metastatic
neurological manifestations associated with a neoplasm. PNS associated with antibodies …

Analysis of inflammatory markers and tau deposits in an autopsy series of nine patients with anti-IgLON5 disease

E Berger-Sieczkowski, V Endmayr, C Haider… - Acta …, 2023 - Springer
Anti-IgLON5 disease is a rare neurological, probably autoimmune, disorder associated in
many cases with a specific tauopathy. Only a few post-mortem neuropathological studies …

Patients' IgLON5 autoantibodies interfere with IgLON5-protein interactions

J Landa, AB Serafim, C Gaig, A Saiz… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Anti-IgLON5 disease is a rare neurological disorder characterized by
autoantibodies against IgLON5, and pathological evidence of neurodegeneration. IgLON5 is …

Rare antibody-mediated and seronegative autoimmune encephalitis: an update

N Seery, H Butzkueven, TJ O'Brien, M Monif - Autoimmunity Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Paralleling advances with respect to more common antibody-mediated encephalitides, such
as anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) and anti-leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 …

Inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptor type 1 autoantibody (ITPR1-IgG/anti-Sj)-associated autoimmune cerebellar ataxia, encephalitis and peripheral neuropathy …

S Jarius, S Bräuninger, HY Chung, C Geis… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background In 2014, we first described novel autoantibodies to the inositol 1, 4, 5-
trisphosphate receptor type 1 (ITPR1-IgG/anti-Sj) in patients with autoimmune cerebellar …

Neurofilament light chain levels predict encephalopathy and outcome in community‐acquired pneumonia

HY Chung, J Wickel, M Oswald… - Annals of Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) is a biomarker for neuroaxonal damage
and has been found to be elevated in several neurological diseases with neuronal …