Practice Current: When do you suspect autoimmune encephalitis and what is the role of antibody testing?
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- Received September 25, 2017
- Accepted November 17, 2017
- First Published January 25, 2018.
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- Aravind Ganesh, MD, and
- Sarah F. Wesley, MD, MPH
- Aravind Ganesh, MD, and
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(1) The Meritas Seminar Series, Oxford: speaker honorarium (2) University of Calgary Post-Graduate Medical Education (PGME): travel funding for conferences (3) St John's College, Oxford: travel funding, honoraria (4) International Stroke Conference: Junior Investigator grants
(1) Neurology Resident & Fellow Section, Editorial Board Member, 2014-present
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(1) Adkins Research Group: honoraria for research consultation (2) Genome BC: honoraria for research consultation
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(1) The Rhodes Trust (2) Wellcome Trust
(1) SnapDx (2) TheRounds.ca (3) Advanced Health Analytics (AHA Health Ltd)
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- Sarah F. Wesley, MD, MPH
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(1) Neurology? Residents & Fellows Section (2) Member of editorial team (3) 2014-present (4) No compensation received
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- Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia (AG), University of Oxford, UK; Department of Clinical Neurosciences (AG), University of Calgary, Canada; and Neurology (SFW), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
- Correspondence
Dr. Wesley Sarah.Wesley{at}Yale.edu
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