Reduced N-acetylaspartate in the basal ganglia of a patient with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 784-786

  Kataoka, Hiroshi ^a   Dalmau, Josep ^b   Taoka, Toshiaki ^a   Ueno, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ASPARTIC ACID; CREATINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSKINESIA; DYSTONIA; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LETTER; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OVARY TERATOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; THALAMUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; BASAL GANGLIA; CREATINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 67651146712     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22167     Document Type: Letter

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