Is anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis real? I. Diagnostic challenges
- Authors: Snedkov E.V.1, Volchek I.A.2,3, Lemeshev I.V.1,4
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Affiliations:
- Psychiatric Hospital of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
- Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education Russian Biotechnological University
- Research Center for Immunology and Allergology
- North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov
- Issue: Vol LV, No 4 (2023)
- Pages: 66-78
- Section: Discussions
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1027-4898/article/view/254023
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/nb624104
- ID: 254023
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Abstract
After conducting a thorough analysis of clinical, neurophysiological, neuroimmunological, neurobiological, and neuropathological research findings, the authors of the review question on the validity of the anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis concept. The review highlights the significance of studying sanogenetic mechanisms in medicine and warns against hasty interpretations of neurobiological data without clinical knowledge.
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Evgenii V. Snedkov
Psychiatric Hospital of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Email: esnedkov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1438-1890
SPIN-code: 4353-6428
M.D., D. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Psychiatrist
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgIgor A. Volchek
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education Russian Biotechnological University; Research Center for Immunology and Allergology
Email: igor.volchek@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0000-1451-6145
SPIN-code: 6743-2105
M.D., D. Sci. (Med.), Prof. of the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases with a Cosmetology Course of the Medical Institute of Continuing Education of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Russian Biotechnological University (ROSBIOTECH)”; Chief Researcher of the Research Center for Immunology and Allergology
Russian Federation, Moscow; MoscowIlia V. Lemeshev
Psychiatric Hospital of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker; North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov
Author for correspondence.
Email: ilya.lemeshev@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0002-0491-6545
SPIN-code: 7635-4548
M.D., Head of the Day Hospital Department, Psychiatrist; Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg; Saint PetersburgReferences
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