Thomas A Pollak, Belinda R Lennox, Sabine Müller, Michael E Benros, Harald Prüss, Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Hans Klein, Johann Steiner, Thomas Frodl, Bernhard Bogerts, Li Tian, Laurent Groc, Alkomiet Hasan, Bernhard T Baune, Dominique Endres, Ebrahim Haroon, Robert Yolken, Francesco Benedetti, Angelos Halaris, Jeffrey H Meyer, Hans Stassen, Marion Leboyer, Dietmar Fuchs, Markus Otto, David A Brown, Angela Vincent, Souhel Najjar, Karl Bechter
There is increasing recognition in the neurological and psychiatric literature of patients with so-called isolated psychotic presentations (ie, with no, or minimal, neurological features) who have tested positive for neuronal autoantibodies (principally N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibodies) and who have responded to immunotherapies. Although these individuals are sometimes described as having atypical, mild, or attenuated forms of autoimmune encephalitis, some authors feel that that these cases are sufficiently different from typical autoimmune encephalitis to establish a new category of so-called autoimmune psychosis...
January 2020: Lancet Psychiatry