Medics eventually diagnosed him with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis - a type ... “Ben didn’t suffer from anxiety or seizures but then on September 11, he woke up in the middle of the night ...

Ben Tarver’s night terrors were the first symptoms of Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disorder that landed him in the ICU Ben Tarver, 29, began having seizures and panic ...

NMDA receptors, members of the excitatory ionotropic glutamate receptor family, are essential to these processes. They regulate the strength of synaptic connections, playing a critical role in ...

when postsynaptic receptors such as NMDA and AMPA are overactivated, allowing high levels of calcium influx that trigger a number of biochemical cascades and ultimately cell death. Excitotoxicity ...