Journal article
Autoimmune psychosis: an international consensus on an approach to the diagnosis and management of psychosis of suspected autoimmune origin
TA Pollak, BR Lennox, S Müller, ME Benros, H Prüss, L Tebartz van Elst, H Klein, J Steiner, T Frodl, B Bogerts, L Tian, L Groc, A Hasan, BT Baune, D Endres, E Haroon, R Yolken, F Benedetti, A Halaris, JH Meyer Show all
Lancet Psychiatry | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2020
Abstract
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. We briefly review the background, discuss the existing evidence for a..
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Funding Acknowledgements
LT acknowledges the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission number. Z171100001017021 and the Estonian Research Council-European Union Regional Developmental Fund Mobilitas Pluss Program number. MOBTT77. EH wishes to acknowledge funding support from the US National Institutes of Health, via R01MH107033 and R01MH112076. SM received support from the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF), Germany. TAP acknowledges funding of a clinical lectureship from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). BRL acknowledges funding support from NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre. JS and BB raised the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) funding for the Psychoimmunology Expert Meetings in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018. DAB acknowledges funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia, and the Institute for Clinical Pathology and Medical Research. MEB wishes to acknowledge funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark and by an unrestricted grant from The Lundbeck Foundation. We thank Mrs Anne-Katrin Baum for kindly providing the EEG image.