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Aussie Athlete Tiana Death’s Battle Sheds Light on Rare Autoimmune Encephalitis

Aussie Athlete Tiana Death’s Battle Sheds Light on Rare Autoimmune Encephalitis

  • Post author:Bree Clare
  • Post published:August 14, 2025
  • Post category:Autoimmune encephalitis

Australian athlete Tiana Death has bravely shared her journey after being struck by autoimmune encephalitis, a rare and serious brain disease that upended her life and forced her to relearn…

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Doctors Thought She Had Psychosis—But This Olympic Rugby Star was Battling Autoimmune Encephalitis
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Doctors Thought She Had Psychosis—But This Olympic Rugby Star was Battling Autoimmune Encephalitis

  • Post author:Jessica Lynn
  • Post published:March 22, 2023
  • Post category:Autoimmune encephalitis

At the 2020 Olympic Games (held in Tokyo in 2021), British rugby sevens player Abi Burton gave it her all. Coming from a rugby background, Burton wanted to ensure that…

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Patient Story: Parents Raising Awareness for Autoimmune Encephalitis
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Patient Story: Parents Raising Awareness for Autoimmune Encephalitis

  • Post author:Alyssa Stevens
  • Post published:May 27, 2022
  • Post category:Autoimmune encephalitis

According to a recent article, the parents of Anyiah Johnson are working to raise awareness for their daughter’s rare diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis. Autoimmune Encephalitis Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a…

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A Mother’s Autoimmune Encephalitis Misdiagnosed as “Breakdown” 
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A Mother’s Autoimmune Encephalitis Misdiagnosed as “Breakdown” 

  • Post author:Jessica Lynn
  • Post published:December 3, 2021
  • Post category:Autoimmune encephalitis

In April 2020, Elly Hawkins, a mother of three who currently lives in Queensland, Australia, began experiencing some odd symptoms. At first, the 35-year-old woke up with extreme vertigo. It…

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Case Study: Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis
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Case Study: Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis

  • Post author:Rose Duesterwald
  • Post published:July 15, 2021
  • Post category:Autoimmune encephalitis/Rare Disease

  According to an article in NCBI’s Drug In Context, it took the combined services of the internal medicine, neurology, and psychiatry departments to diagnose this rare disease. Anti-NMDAR encephalitis…

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How Researchers Used Multiple Sclerosis to Understand Autoimmune Encephalitis
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How Researchers Used Multiple Sclerosis to Understand Autoimmune Encephalitis

  • Post author:Kendall Mason
  • Post published:December 13, 2019
  • Post category:Multiple Sclerosis

  Autoimmune encephalitis is a group of diseases that was only identified about a decade ago. The newness of this condition makes it difficult to completely understand it. Dr Robb…

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