AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS

The Clinical Assessment Scale in Autoimmune Encephalitis, or CASE, is a tool that doctors use to gauge how bad the disease feels in patients. Yet nobody had decided what change on this scale actually signals a real improvement or worsening. Researchers set out to fill that gap by looking at a gro

Imagine your brain is a city, and suddenly, its own defense system turns against it. That's what happens in autoimmune encephalitis (AE). Usually, your immune system protects you, but in AE, it mistakenly attacks parts of your brain, causing weird symptoms like personality changes, memory loss, seiz