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  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Comprehensive neurocognitive function analyses in autoimmune encephalitis (AE) patients, particularly long-term cases, are scarce.
  • This study investigates cognitive function in diagnosed AE patients.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To measure and analyze neurocognitive function in patients with autoimmune encephalitis (AE).
  • To compare cognitive performance between AE patients with and without NMDAR antibodies.
  • To explore the relationship between limbic structural involvement and cognitive deficits.

Main Methods:

  • A case-control study involving 11 AE patients (NMDAR, VGKC, GAD antibodies, or antibody-negative) and 12 controls (pneumococcal meningo-encephalitis).
  • Neurocognitive tests assessed memory, attention, and overall cognition (MoCA).
  • MRI evaluated limbic structural involvement; statistical analyses correlated antibody status, cognitive tests, and MRI findings.

Main Results:

  • Neurocognitive functions were generally normal in both AE and control groups, except for face recognition, which was impaired in both.
  • NMDAR antibody patients demonstrated significantly better visual memory and incidental learning scores compared to non-NMDAR patients.
  • Non-NMDAR patients with right-sided limbic MRI pathology exhibited significantly poorer visual memory and incidental learning compared to NMDAR patients.

Conclusions:

  • Autoimmune and bacterial encephalitis patients typically exhibit normal neurocognitive functions post-illness.
  • Non-NMDAR AE patients with right-sided hippocampal lesions show specific deficits in figural-mnestic and incidental learning.
  • Further prospective and detailed evaluation of neurocognitive functions in AE patients is warranted.