CASE REPORT: PSYCHOSIS AND CATATONIA IN AN ADOLESCENT PATIENT WITH ADIPSIC HYPERNATREMIA AND AUTOANTIBODIES AGAINST THE SUBFORNICAL ORGAN

Case report: Psychosis and catatonia in an adolescent patient with adipsic hypernatremia and autoantibodies against the subfornical organ

This is the first description of a Circle Compact Mirror patient in which adipsic hypernatremia, a rare autoimmune encephalitis, presented in combination with complex psychiatric symptomatology, including psychosis and catatonia.Adipsic hypernatremia is characterized by autoantibodies against the thirst center of the brain.These autoantibodies caus

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Drosophila and genome-wide association studies: a review and resource for the functional dissection of human complex traits

Human genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified thousands of susceptibility loci for common diseases with complex genetic etiologies.Although the susceptibility variants identified by GWAS usually have only modest effects on individual disease risk, they contribute to a substantial burden of trait variation in the overall

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