Antibody-mediated encephalitis and psychosis

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 344-

  Pollak, T A ^a   Lennox, B R ^b   Vincent, A ^c   Nicholson, T R ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; CATATONIA; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LETTER; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIST; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PLASMAPHERESIS; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOSIS;

ANTI-N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 84859626000     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.200.4.344     Document Type: Letter

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