Adult-onset temporal lobe epilepsy suspicious for autoimmune pathogenesis: Autoantibody prevalence and clinical correlates.

Temporal lobe adult-onset seizures (TAOS) related to autoimmunity represent an increasingly recognized disease syndrome within the spectrum of epilepsies. In this context, certain autoantibodies (autoABs) were often associated with limbic encephalitis (LE). Here, we aimed to gain insights into (a) t...

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Main Authors: Julia C Kuehn, Carolin Meschede, Christoph Helmstaedter, Rainer Surges, Randi von Wrede, Elke Hattingen, Hartmut Vatter, Christian E Elger, Susanne Schoch, Albert J Becker, Julika Pitsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241289