Glycine receptor antibodies in a boy with focal epilepsy and episodic behavioral disorder

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 343, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 180-182

  Wuerfel, Eva ^a   Bien, Christian G ^b   Vincent, Angela ^c   Woodhall, Mark ^c   Brockmann, Knut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoimmune antibodies; Children; Encephalopathy; Epilepsy; Partial Seizures; Stiff person syndrome

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; LAMOTRIGINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; STEROID; SULTIAME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VGKC COMPLEX ANTIBODY; ANTIBODY; GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ANGER; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLUMSINESS; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC BEHAVIOR DISORDER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LOSS OF APPETITE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MONOTHERAPY; NIGHT SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLURRED SPEECH; SPIKE WAVE; STEROID THERAPY; STRETCHING; SWEATING; SYMPTOM; TONIC SEIZURE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BLOOD; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; IMMUNOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

ANTIBODIES; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84904247576     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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