Encephalitis Lethargica
Common Name(s)
Encephalitis Lethargica
Advocacy and Support Organizations
Condition Specific Organizations
Following organizations serve the condition "Encephalitis Lethargica" for support, advocacy or research.
Encephalitis Global (E Global) is a U.S.A. 501(c)(3) public charity formed in 2005 as an alliance connecting encephalitis survivors and caregivers around the world. E Global strives to raise awareness, aiming to promote swift diagnosis, to alleviate unnecessary suffering and to prevent untimely death.
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Advocacy and Support Organizations
Condition Specific Organizations
Following organizations serve the condition "Encephalitis Lethargica" for support, advocacy or research.
Encephalitis Global (E Global) is a U.S.A. 501(c)(3) public charity formed in 2005 as an alliance connecting encephalitis survivors and caregivers around the world. E Global strives to raise awareness, aiming to promote swift diagnosis, to alleviate unnecessary suffering and to prevent untimely death.
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Scientific Literature
Articles from the PubMed Database
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The terms "Encephalitis Lethargica" returned 13 free, full-text research articles on human participants.
First 3 results:
Journal: Ann. Neurol.. 2012 Dec;72(6):912-7.
Parkinsonism has occasionally been reported as a consequence of infectious diseases. The present study examines the clinical and pathological correlates of parkinsonism across birth cohorts in relation to critical exposure to the encephalitis lethargica epidemic in the early 1900s.
Journal:
The epidemic of encephalitis lethargica (EL), called classical EL, was rampant throughout the world during 1917-1926, affecting half a million persons. The acute phase was lethal for many victims. Post-encephalitic parkinsonism (PEP) affected patients for decades. Our purpose was ...
Journal: J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2009 Oct;116(10):1295-308.
This is the first of two papers which critically examine the relationship between the 1918/19 influenza pandemic and encephalitis lethargica (EL). The role of influenza in the etiology of EL was vigorously debated until 1924. It is notable, however, that the unitarian camp were largely ...
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Reviews from the PubMed Database
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The terms "Encephalitis Lethargica" returned 3 free, full-text review articles on human participants.
First 3 results:
Journal: Mov. Disord.. 2010 Jul;25(9):1124-30.
This article and the subsequent one suggest that the currently accepted view of a simplistic (direct) relationship between encephalitis lethargica (EL) and postencephalitic Parkinsonism (PEP) is based on a incomplete evaluation of the epidemic period literature. In this article we ...
Journal: Mov. Disord.. 2010 Jul;25(9):1116-23.
Postencephalitic parkinsonism has been considered unique among disorders with parkinsonian features because it is believed to have a unitary etiology associated with the virus that presumably caused encephalitis lethargica. Careful analysis of the historical record, however, suggests ...
Journal: J. Neurovirol.. 2008 May;14(3):177-85.
Since encephalitis lethargica's (EL) prevalence in the 1920s, epidemiologic and clinical debate has persisted over whether EL was caused by, potentiated by, or merely coincident with the Spanish influenza pandemic. Epidemiologic analyses generally suggest that the disorders were coincidental. ...
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Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
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