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Psychology Today - The Inflamed Brain (November 2024)

4 November 2024

Finding Life-Changing Support Through Patient Events By Jackie Stebbins, Esq It seems unfathomable that a person could start the day with a 10-million-dollar professional career ahead of her but have it erased by the day’s end. It’s scary to believe that you can be diagnosed with a life-changing illness that you’ve never even heard of. It’s heartbreaking […]

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Encephalitis – an invisible disability

24 October 2024

Every year, between 20-26th October, we celebrate Invisible Disability Week which was founded by the USA-based non profit organisation Invisible Disabilities Association (IDA) in 2014. The aim of this campaign is to promote awareness, education, and support for those living with an invisible disability and their families around the world. Global statistics on invisible disabilities […]

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Psychology Today - The Inflamed Brain (September)

27 September 2024

By Laura Ryan The lucky, unlucky one. That is what my mom always calls me. The chances of developing autoimmune encephalitis, inflammation of the brain caused by the immune system in error, were thought at the time to be roughly the same as winning the lotto—except I didn’t win the lotto, and I certainly did […]

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Researchers discover latest insights into after-effects of severe COVID-19 on the brain

26 September 2024

New steps have been taken towards a better understanding of the immediate and long-term impact of COVID-19 on the brain in the UK’s largest study to date. We are delighted to announce that a study from researchers led by the University of Liverpool (including our CEO Dr Ava Easton and members of our Scientific Advisory […]

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Psychology Today - The Inflamed Brain (April)

9 April 2024

Measles: Catching Your Death—A Public Health Crisis By Dr Ava Easton, Encephalitis International I know about measles. I had it as a child and was pretty unwell with it, confined to a darkened room for more than a week with concerns raised for my eyesight, among other things. Decades later, I still know about measles […]

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Psychology Today - The Inflamed Brain (February)

22 February 2024

How Encephalitis Changed My Life A Personal Perspective: When the immune system erroneously attacks the brain. By Juliana Ortiz One minute, I couldn’t stop babbling about starting high school; the next, I was in an ambulance speeding to Miami’s Jackson Hospital, where I was eventually diagnosed with NMDAR-antibody encephalitis—a disease most people have never heard […]

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