Seizures are a well‐recognized and often prominent manifestation of autoimmune
encephalitic syndromes. Progress in detection of pathogenic neural autoantibodies has led …

Epilepsy is the third most common chronic brain disorder, and is characterized by an
enduring predisposition to generate seizures. Despite progress in pharmacological and …

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory demyelinating disease in which active demyelination
and neurodegeneration are associated with lymphocyte infiltrates in the brain. However, so …

Rasmussen's encephalitis is a rare chronic neurological disorder, characterised by
unilateral inflammation of the cerebral cortex, drug-resistant epilepsy, and progressive …

Classical paraneoplastic encephalitis syndromes with 'onconeural'antibodies directed to
intracellular antigens, and the recently described paraneoplastic or non-paraneoplastic …

The concept of central nervous system (CNS) inflammation has evolved over the last
decades. Neuroinflammation is the response of reactive CNS components to altered …

During the last decade, experimental research has demonstrated a prominent role of glial
cells, activated in brain by various injuries, in the mechanisms of seizure precipitation and …

Focal demyelinated plaques in white matter, which are the hallmark of multiple sclerosis
pathology, only partially explain the patient's clinical deficits. We thus analysed global brain …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is traditionally seen as an inflammatory demyelinating disease,
characterized by the formation of focal demyelinated plaques in the white matter of the …

Inflammation is a defense reaction against diverse insults, designed to remove noxious
agents and to inhibit their detrimental effects. It consists of a dazzling array of molecular and …