Rapidly Cycling Auras and Episodic Focal Dystonia in Anti-LGI1 Autoimmune Encephalitis

JAMA Neurol. 2016 Sep 1;73(9):1150. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.1085.

Authors

Tadeu A Fantaneanu¹, Shamik Bhattacharyya¹, Tracey A Milligan¹, Page B Pennell¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 27399958
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.1085

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Autoantibodies / blood
Basal Ganglia / diagnostic imaging
Dystonic Disorders / diagnostic imaging
Dystonic Disorders / etiology*
Electroencephalography
Encephalitis / complications*
Encephalitis / diagnostic imaging
Encephalitis / immunology
Epilepsy / diagnostic imaging
Epilepsy / etiology*
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Hashimoto Disease / complications*
Hashimoto Disease / diagnostic imaging
Hashimoto Disease / immunology
Humans
Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Positron-Emission Tomography
Proteins / immunology*
Temporal Lobe / diagnostic imaging

Substances

Autoantibodies
Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
LGI1 protein, human
Proteins
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18

Supplementary concepts

Hashimoto's encephalitis