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Encephalitis is an acute inflammatory condition of the brain caused by infective or autoimmune mechanisms. It typically involves headache, fever, confusion, seizures, and sensory or motor disturbance. Recently there have been increased understandings of the role of neuronal cell antibodies in presentations of encephalitis that have psychiatric features only.
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Vesey, P., Maddison, P., O’Regan, E.E.T., Williams, E. (2016). First-Episode Psychosis with Autoimmune Antibodies Involving Clear Neuropsychological Impairment with Common and Unusual Features. In: Priller, J., Rickards, H. (eds) Neuropsychiatry Case Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42190-2_31
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