Uncommon Clinical presentation of Auto Immune Encephalitis in an Adolescent Female
Received Date: Nov 01, 2023 / Published Date: Nov 30, 2023
Abstract
In adolescents, anti NMDA-R encephalitis is the most common etiology of autoimmune encephalitis presenting with various neuropsychiatric symptoms including catatonia. NMDA receptors are responsible for synaptic plasticity and their disruption results in a host of neuropsychiatric symptoms including catatonia. This disruption results from the generation of IgG autoantibodies against the NR1 subunit of the NMDA-R
Citation: Miseer P, Talatala M (2023) Uncommon Clinical presentation of AutoImmune Encephalitis in an Adolescent Female. J Clin Exp Neuroimmunol, 8: 208.
Copyright: © 2023 Miseer P, et al. This is an open-access article distributed underthe terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricteduse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author andsource are credited.
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