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A patient with a long history of relapsing psychosis and mania presenting with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis ten years after first episode

Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a recently discovered autoimmune disorder, in which antibodies target NMDARs in the brain, leading to their removal from synapses. Early in the disease course, patients often present with marked psychosis and mood disturbances (i.e. mania, d...

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Autores principales: Simabukuro, Mateus Mistieri, Freitas, Christian Henrique de Andrade, Castro, Luiz Henrique Martins
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642015DN93000016