Dr. Sukhvir Wright at Aston University Institute for Health and Neurodevelopment (IHN), and honorary consultant neurologist at Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH), has been awarded a £3.4m Career ...

5-year-old Nathan Camargo had seizures at school before he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has spent 20 years as a reporter for ...

BALTIMORE — The anti-interleukin-6 (IL-6) antibody drug tocilizumab shows efficacy in the treatment of patients with autoimmune limbic encephalitis (ALE) who do not respond to rituximab, new research ...

“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain. What’s called autoimmune encephalitis attacks the organ that makes ...

Latoya McDonald's symptoms started relatively small. McDonald, 40, of Baltimore, Maryland, noticed that she was forgetting things, like picking up her daughter from school, and she started falling ...

Autoimmune neurological diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks nerve cells. Damage to neuronal cells can lead to a variety of neurologic and psychiatric symptoms. Autoimmune diseases ...

Echocardiogram and clinical features help researchers identify epilepsy after encephalitis in children. Early prediction of epilepsy after encephalitis in childhood can be identified by the peripheral ...

Autoimmune encephalitis stole years of father Christy Morrill's memories and can lead to psychosis. But it is being caught early more often "My year of unravelling" is how a despairing Christy Morrill ...