Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: a neuropsychiatric entity

AntiNMDA receptor encephalitis is a form of autoimmune encephalitis which manifests itself with acute or subacute onset psychiatric symptoms, seizures, autonomic dysfunction, and movement disorders. It is a rather recently described form which may progress fatal at about 20%, and which may recover with aggressive immunosuppressive treatment without any sequela. Multifocal, non-specific, subcortical white matter lesions can be observed in cranial...