title: Limbic encephalitis: a case report.
abstract: We report a case of a 24 year old patient, who presented with simple and complex partial epileptic seizures, progressive changes in behaviour and affect including marked aggression, and a decline in memory to the point of inability to learn. Extensive work-up resulted in a final diagnosis of limbic encephalitis. This diagnosis was supported by a number of investigations performed during the follow-up of 6 years and ranging from the basic EEG to the more sophisticated investigations of magnetic resonance tomography, magnetoencephalography and positron emission tomography.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Electroencephalographie und Epileptologie, Universitätsspital, Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Wieser
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D017029:Epilepsy, Complex Partial / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008032:Limbic System; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D015225:Magnetoencephalography; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000150:complications; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon