Stiff-person syndrome: insights into a complex autoimmune disorder

Encephalitis with refractory seizures, status epilepticus, and antibodies to the GABAA receptor: a case series, characterisation of the antigen, and analysis of the effects of antibodies

(2014) Mar Petit-Pedrol et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Evidence of T-cell mediated neuronal injury in stiff-person syndrome with anti-amphiphysin antibodies

(2013) Mervyn Q.W. Poh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Glycine receptor antibodies in stiff-person syndrome and other GAD-positive CNS disorders

(2013) H. Alexopoulos et al.   NEUROLOGY

Monoclonal antibodies to 65kDa glutamate decarboxylase induce epitope specific effects on motor and cognitive functions in rats

(2013) Christiane S Hampe et al.   Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Neuronal Surface and Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase Autoantibodies in Nonparaneoplastic Stiff Person Syndrome

(2013) Thashi Chang et al.   JAMA Neurology

Stiff-Man Syndrome and Variants

(2012) Andrew McKeon   ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY

Characteristics ofin-vitrophenotypes of glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 autoantibodies in high-titre individuals

(2012) M. Chéramy et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY

Human Stiff person syndrome IgG-containing high-titer anti-GAD65 autoantibodies induce motor dysfunction in rats

(2012) Niels Hansen et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Human IgG directed against amphiphysin induces anxiety behavior in a rat model after intrathecal passive transfer

(2012) Christian Geis et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION

Movement disorders in autoimmune diseases

(2012) José Fidel Baizabal-Carvallo et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Treatment of stiff-person syndrome with chronic plasmapheresis

(2012) Beatriz De la Casa-Fages et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Glycine Receptor Autoimmune Spectrum With Stiff-Man Syndrome Phenotype

(2012) Andrew McKeon et al.   JAMA Neurology

Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) and anti-GAD-related CNS degenerations: Protean additions to the autoimmune central neuropathies

(2011) Fatima Ali et al.   JOURNAL OF AUTOIMMUNITY

A case of glycine-receptor antibody-associated encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus (PERM): clinical course, treatment and CSF findings

(2011) A. Piotrowicz et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Stiff person syndrome (SPS) complicated by respiratory failure: successful treatment with rituximab

(2011) A. Qureshi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Pathological findings in a case of stiff person syndrome with anti-GAD antibodies

(2011) Jonathan Witherick et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

GABAB receptor antibodies in limbic encephalitis and anti-GAD-associated neurologic disorders

(2011) A. Boronat et al.   NEUROLOGY

Respective implications of glutamate decarboxylase antibodies in stiff person syndrome and cerebellar ataxia

(2011) Mario U Manto et al.   Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Human Stiff-Person Syndrome IgG Induces Anxious Behavior in Rats

(2011) Christian Geis et al.   PLoS One

Stiff person syndrome-associated autoantibodies to amphiphysin mediate reduced GABAergic inhibition

(2010) Christian Geis et al.   BRAIN

Characterization of CD4+ T cells specific for glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65) and proinsulin in a patient with stiff-person syndrome but without type 1 diabetes

(2010) Arno Hänninen et al.   DIABETES-METABOLISM RESEARCH AND REVIEWS

Rituximab treatment of stiff-person syndrome in a patient with thymoma, diabetes mellitus and autoimmune thyroiditis

(2010) J.L. Dupond et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE

Central Nervous System Destruction Mediated by Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase-Specific CD4+ T Cells

(2010) A. R. Burton et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Qualitative and quantitative evidence of anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase-specific intrathecal antibody synthesis in patients with stiff person syndrome

(2010) S. Jarius et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY

An uncommon paraneoplastic Ri-positive opsoclonus-myoclonus-like syndrome and Stiff-Person syndrome with elevated glutamate/GABA ratio in the cerebrospinal fluid after breast cancer

(2010) A. Thümen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Antiglycine-receptor encephalomyelitis with rigidity

(2010) N. Mas et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Long-Lived Plasma Cells and Memory B Cells Produce Pathogenic Anti-GAD65 Autoantibodies in Stiff Person Syndrome

(2010) Marta Rizzi et al.   PLoS One

Spinal Cord Stimulation to Abort Painful Spasms of Atypical Stiff Limb Syndrome

(2010) I. Ughratdar et al.   STEREOTACTIC AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY

Monozygotic twins with stiff person syndrome and autoimmune thyroiditis: rituximab inefficacy in a double-blind, randomised, placebo controlled crossover study

(2009) N Venhoff et al.   ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES

Stiff person syndrome associated with lower motor neuron disease and infiltration of cytotoxic T cells in the spinal cord

(2009) Trygve Holmøy et al.   CLINICAL NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY

Stiff person syndrome: Advances in pathogenesis and therapeutic interventions

(2009) Marinos C. Dalakas   Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Increased spontaneous activity of a network of hippocampal neurons in culture caused by suppression of inhibitory potentials mediated by anti-gad antibodies

(2008) Marika Vianello et al.   AUTOIMMUNITY

Spectrum of neurological syndromes associated with glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies: diagnostic clues for this association

(2008) Albert Saiz et al.   BRAIN

Cerebrospinal fluid T cell responses against glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 in patients with stiff person syndrome

(2008) Gjertrud Skorstad et al.   JOURNAL OF AUTOIMMUNITY

11C-Flumazenil positron emission tomography demonstrates reduction of both global and local cerebral benzodiazepine receptor binding in a patient with Stiff Person Syndrome

(2008) N. Galldiks et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Levetiracetam in stiff-person syndrome

(2008) GianPietro Sechi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

STIFF EYES IN STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME

(2008) B. Oskarsson et al.   NEUROLOGY

Stiff-person syndrome with amphiphysin antibodies: Distinctive features of a rare disease

(2008) B. B. Murinson et al.   NEUROLOGY