After she'd spent a year experiencing unusual mood and behavioral symptoms, doctors discovered the teen's brain was being attacked by her own cells.
A teenage girl suddenly began experiencing depression, seizures and involuntary episodes in which she'd hit her head or scratch her arms and then not recall doing so. Doctors discovered that her symptoms actually stemmed from brain inflammation caused by a common autoimmune disease, a new case report reveals.
According to the case report, published June 29 in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, finally getting an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment meant the teen was able to recover and get her life"back on track," as she reportedly phrased it to her doctors.
After experiencing three seizures, doctors prescribed her antiepileptic medication that initially improved her symptoms, but the effects didn't last. She started to have"episodes" where she would suddenly become agitated and start unconsciously harming herself. Sometimes, just before her mood or behavior changed, the patient experienced a sudden shift in perception, called an"aura," which in her case involved flashes of light or machine sounds.
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