Prevalence of somatic symptom and related disorders at a tertiary neuroimmunology clinic.

Background: The prevalence of somatic symptom and related disorders (SSRDs) in the neuroimmunology clinic is unknown.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of SSRDs in patients referred to a tertiary neuroimmunology clinic.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the presence of SSRDs in patients referred to a tertiary neuroimmunology clinic from 2016 to 2023.

Residual symptoms and long-term outcomes after all-cause autoimmune encephalitis in adults.

Background And Objectives: To evaluate residual symptoms after all-cause autoimmune encephalitis in a real-life outpatient setting and compare long-term outcome measures. A secondary objective was to identify correlates of poor outcomes.

Methods: We analyzed patients referred to the Neuroimmunology clinic for evaluation of autoimmune encephalitis for whom standardized data were collected.

Visual art therapy in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a case study.

This paper describes the diagnostic and treatment utility of visual art therapy in a case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Visual art therapy was compared longitudinally with clinical and neuroimaging data over five-month period in an autopsy-confirmed case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of MM2-cortical subtype. Art therapy sessions and content were useful in ascertaining neuropsychiatric symptoms during the course of her illness.

Rapidly progressive young-onset dementias: neuropsychiatric aspects.

Rapidly progressive dementia (RPD) is roughly defined as neurocognitive decline resulting in dementia or death within 2 years. Although RPDs affect all age groups, many occur in patients with young-onset dementia. Although prion disease (eg, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) is often thought to be the prototypic rapidly progressive young-onset dementia, the differential diagnosis is broad and some etiologies may be treatable.