Some of our Favourites from 2021 – Happy New Year!

Dear Subscriber,

We are nearing the end of 2021 and we look forward to bringing you more of the very best from the medical literature on anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and autoimmune encephalitis in 2022. We hope you have found our weekly selections of value.

Before closing the year, we thought we would share with you some of our favourites and ones we consider important articles from 2021. This was a daunting task as there has been so much valuable literature. We are pleased to share with you our picks of eleven articles from 2021, chosen from our newsletters.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!

Use and Safety of Immunotherapeutic Management of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate Receptor Antibody Encephalitis
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2784410?guestAccessKey=66e5c44f-e412-4cc6-bc81-61c4b59732c3&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jamaneur&utm_term=5918610085&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=140227517

Screening for pathogenic neuronal autoantibodies in serum and CSF of patients with first-episode psychosis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01701-3

Clinical, Neuroimmunologic, and CSF Investigations in First Episode Psychosis
https://n.neurology.org/content/97/1/e61

Rituximab Treatment and Long-term Outcome of Patients with Autoimmune Encephalitis
https://nn.neurology.org/content/8/6/e1088

CSF Findings in Acute NMDAR and LGI1 Antibody–Associated Autoimmune Encephalitis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8546742/

Neural Antibody Testing for Autoimmune Encephalitis: A Canadian Single-Centre Experience
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-neurological-sciences/article/neural-antibody-testing-for-autoimmune-encephalitis-a-canadian-singlecentre-experience/29ACF1AE1B73ACDA105DAB553DA8F7D4

Limitations of a Commercial Assay as Diagnostic Test of Autoimmune Encephalitis
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.691536/full

Long-Term Cognitive Outcome in Anti–N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.26241

Prospective Quantification of CSF Biomarkers in Antibody-Mediated Encephalitis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795390/

Autoimmune Neurology
The Need for Comprehensive Care
https://nn.neurology.org/content/8/5/e1033

ExTINGUISH Trial Announcement
https://www.antinmdafoundation.org/breaking-news-first-clinical-trial-for-anti-nmda-receptor-encephalitis/