Putting out the Fire in the Brain: New Mechanisms, New Opportunities
Time: 11:30 am
day: Day One
Details:
- Anti-NMDA encephalitis is well known to cause acute psychosis
- 50% of patients presenting with new-onset schizophrenia and mania have high circulating titers of a previously unrecognized retrovirus
- Targeting this and other anti-NMDA infections has demonstrated efficacy in animals and early human trials
