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Case Study: Anti-GAD Encephalitis

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A 58-year-old unemployed white lady was referred to the neuropsychiatry liaison team at a university hospital. She was admitted with confusion, auditory hallucinations, dehydration, malnutrition, upbeating nystagmus and ophthalmoplegia. She had been previously diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 40.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, St Thomas’s Hospital, London, UK

    Helen Walker MBChB, MRCPsych

  2. Department of Neurology, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

    Ashwani Jha MRCP, PhD

  3. Department of Neurology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

    Paul Holmes MD, FRCP (UK) & Thomasin Andrews BSc, MD, FRCP

  4. Department of Academic Neuropsychiatry, King’s College London, St Thomas’s Hospital, London, UK

    Michael Kopelman PhD, FBPsS, FRCPsych, FMedSci

  5. Department of Neuropsychiatry and Memory Disorders, King’s College London, London, UK

    Mervi Pitkanen MBBS, Lic Med, MA, MRC Psych, MD

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  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Josef Priller

  2. Birmingham and Solihull MHFT, Birmingham University, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Hugh Rickards

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Walker, H., Jha, A., Holmes, P., Andrews, T., Kopelman, M., Pitkanen, M. (2016). Case Study: Anti-GAD Encephalitis. In: Priller, J., Rickards, H. (eds) Neuropsychiatry Case Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42190-2_33

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