“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 ...

An overview of clinical features and biomarkers associated with anti-NMDAR encephalitis, highlighting current research directions in diagnosis and treatment. Encephalitis is a potentially ...

Imagine a pandemic that spread across the world, causing death and disability to hundreds of thousands of people. Having lived through COVID-19, this isn’t too difficult a task. But there was one big ...

Brain Disease Encephalitis: The Silent Inflammation That Can Change Everything: By Aarushi Bose When the brain becomes inflamed, even simple functions can turn uncertain. Brain disease encephalitis ...

The lucky, unlucky one. That is what my mom always calls me. The chances of developing autoimmune encephalitis, inflammation of the brain caused by the immune system in error, were thought at the time ...

Encephalitis is a potentially life-threatening condition that involves inflammation of the brain. While some cases of encephalitis are caused by a bacterial or viral infection, other cases of ...

Sky Sports presenter Emma Saunders has revealed she is battling a brain infection following her treatment for cancer. Emma Saunders has become a familiar face on Sky Sports, regularly featuring in ...

A transparent chip no larger than a stick of gum is helping scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, an R1 research institution, transform the way researchers study the human ...

A rare and deadly mosquito-borne disease has been popping up again this summer: eastern equine encephalitis, a viral illness that causes brain swelling in severe cases and has claimed at least one ...

An atomic-level investigation of how Eastern equine encephalitis virus binds to a key receptor and gets inside of cells also has enabled the discovery of a decoy molecule that protects against the ...

A transparent chip no larger than a stick of gum is helping scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, an R1 research institution, transform the way researchers study the human ...