Seizures as first symptom of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis are more common in men

Neurology

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 550-551

  Titulaer, Maarten J ^a   Dalmau, Josep ^b,c,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

AMNESIA; ANTI N METHYL D ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISORDER;

ANTI-N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84895747492     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000131     Document Type: Editorial

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