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3 days agoHow Are Autoimmune Patients Addressing Memory Loss?
Autoimmune disorders can impair the brain, causing memory loss and psychiatric symptoms, so accurate diagnosis and ongoing symptom management are essential.
I frequently meet patients with lupus whose disease has caused severe neuropsychiatric symptoms, and watching them emerge from their cognitive cocoons after immunosuppressive treatment is always breathtaking. Other autoimmune neurologic phenomena can present in equally bizarre ways. Some people with antiphospholipid syndrome-a condition associated with the formation of blood clots-can experience chorea (involuntary muscle movements)or acute changes in cognition (one of my patients was diagnosed after becoming markedly confused).