People with autoimmune limbic encephalitis experience memory loss associated with damage to the hippocampus. To advance ...

People with autoimmune limbic encephalitis experience memory loss associated with damage to their hippocampus.

Encephalitis can be characterized as either primary or secondary. Whereas primary encephalitis arises when a virus or other type of agent directly infects the brain, secondary encephalitis is due to ...

The arrival of monsoon is often welcomed after months of scorching heat. But along with cooler weather comes a sharp rise in ...

In 1917, at the height of the Great War, a new and mysterious disease emerged into the world, before vanishing a few years later. Although it was to prove less destructive than the 1918 influenza ...

Eastern equine encephalitis is a virus that is primarily transmitted by certain mosquitoes. It was first identified in horses that died of encephalitis along the mid-Atlantic coast in 1933. EEE was ...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is so called because it was first reported from Japan and the major complication is encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). JE is the most important form of viral ...

Queensland has recorded its first locally acquired human case of mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis in more than two decades. It has been declared an issue of national significance, prompting ...