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SINAPPS Group selected publications

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Influence of methodological and patient factors on serum NMDAR IgG antibody detection in psychotic disorders: a meta-analysis of cross-sectional and case-control studies.

Cullen, A. E., Palmer-Cooper, E. C., Hardwick, M., Vaggers, S., Crowley, H., Pollak, T. A., & Lennox, B. R.

The Lancet Psychiatry 8.2 (2021): 109-120.

Intravenous immunoglobulin and rituximab versus placebo treatment of antibody-associated psychosis: study protocol of a randomised phase IIa double-blinded placebo-controlled trial (SINAPPS2)

Lennox B, Yeeles K, Jones PB, Zandi M, Joyce E, Yu L-M, Tomei G, Pollard R, Vincent S-A, Shimazaki M, Cairns I, Dowling F, Kabir T, Barnes TRE, Lingford Hughes A, Hosseini AA, Harrower T, Buckely C, Coles A.

Trials, (2019), 20:331

Study of immunotherapy in antibody positive psychosis: feasibility and acceptability (SINAPPS1)

B Lennox, G Tomei, S-A Vincent, K Yeeles, R Pollard, EC Palmer-Cooper, P Jones, M Zandi, A Coles.

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry Published Online First: (11 June 2018). doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2018-318124

Psychosis: an autoimmune disease?

A Al-Diwani, T Pollak, S Irani, B Lennox

Immunology, (2017) (epub ahead of print) DOI: 10.1111/imm.12795

Prevalence and clinical characteristics of serum neuronal cell surface antibodies in first-episode psychosis: a case-control study

B Lennox, EC Palmer-Cooper, T Pollak, J Hainsworth, J Marks, L Jacobson, B Lang

The Lancet Psychiatry, 2016, 4 (1).

Behavioural and molecular endophenotypes in psychotic disorders reveal heritable abnormalities in glutamatergic neurotransmission

L Scoriels, RM Salek, E Goodby, D Grainger, AM Dean, JA West, JL Griffin

Translational psychiatry, 2015, 5 (3)

Inflammation and immunity in schizophrenia: implications for pathophysiology and treatment

GM Khandaker, L Cousins, J Deakin, BR Lennox, R Yolken, PB Jones

The Lancet Psychiatry, 2015, 2 (3), 258-270

N-methyl D-Aspartate receptor autoantibodies in psychiatric illness

MS Zandi, B Lennox, A Vincent

Biological Psychiatry, 2015

The Oxford Experience: Clinical Features And Outcomes of 25 NMDAR-Ab Positive Patients Including Those With Atypical Presentations (P5. 189)

K Morris, C Buckley, B Lennox, Y Hacohen, E Coutinho, A Vincent

Neurology 82 (10 Supplement), 2014, P5. 189-P5. 189

Autoimmune encephalitis: a potentially treatable cause of mental disorder

H Rickards, S Jacob, B Lennox, T Nicholson

Advances in psychiatric treatment, 2014, 20 (2), 92-100

Immunotherapy for patients with acute psychosis and serum N-Methyl d-Aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antibodies: A description of a treated case series

MS Zandi, JB Deakin, K Morris, C Buckley, L Jacobson, L Scoriels,

Schizophrenia Research, 2014

Clinical relevance of serum antibodies to extracellular N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor epitopes

MS Zandi, RW Paterson, MA Ellul, L Jacobson, A Al-Diwani, JL Jones

J Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2014

Young people's views of UK mental health services

J Plaistow, K Masson, D Koch, J Wilson, RM Stark, PB Jones, BR Lennox

Early intervention in psychiatry, 2014, 8 (1), 12-23

Movement disorders and psychiatry. Five new things.

G Cummins, M Zandi, RA Barker

Neurology Clinical Practice, 2014

Recent advances in the neuroimmunology of cell-surface CNS autoantibody syndromes, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury and schizophrenia

E Needham, MS Zandi

Journal of Neurology, 2014

Long term remission with rituximab in refractory leucine-rich glioma inactivated 1 antibody encephalitis

JWL Brown, PJ Martin, JW Thorpe, AW Michell, AJ Coles, AL Cox

Journal of Neuroimmunology, 2014

Antibodies to the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor and Other Synaptic Proteins in Psychosis

J Deakin, BR Lennox, MS Zandi

Biological psychiatry, 2014, 75 (4), 284-291

Functional dysconnectivity of corticostriatal circuitry as a risk phenotype for psychosis

A Fornito, BJ Harrison, E Goodby, A Dean, C Ooi, PJ Nathan, BR Lennox

JAMA psychiatry, 2013, 70 (11), 1143-1151

Psychotic symptoms in young people warrant urgent referral.

J Deakin, B Lennox

The Practitioner, 2013, 257 (1759), 25-8, 3

Defining and treating leucine-rich glioma inactivated 1 antibody associated autoimmunity

Brain, 2013, 136 (10), 2933-2935

Clinical relevance of positive voltage-gated potassium channel (VGKC)-complex antibodies: experience from a tertiary referral centre

RW Paterson, MS Zandi, R Armstrong, A Vincent, JM Schott

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2013

Antibody-mediated encephalitis: a treatable cause of schizophrenia

BR Lennox, AJ Coles, A Vincent

The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2012, 200 (2) 92-94

Two interesting cases of MMDAR enchepalitis and a typical but seronegative case with ovarian teratoma

M Ellul, S Sawcer, AJ Coles, MS Zandi

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2012, 83 (Suppl 2), A7-A7

Disease-relevant autoantibodies in first episode schizophrenia

MS Zandi, SR Irani, B Lang, P Waters, PB Jones, P McKenna, AJ Coles,

Journal of neurology, 2011, 258 (4), 686-688

POI06 Rituximab in neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus: a retrospective study of the Cambridge experience

M Zandi, F Catapano, S Burns, FC Hall, KGC Smith, DRW Jayne,

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2010, 81 (11), e54-e54

N-methyl-D-aspartate antibody encephalitis: temporal progression of clinical and paraclinical observations in a predominantly non-paraneoplastic disorder of both sexes

SR Irani, K Bera, P Waters, L Zuliani, S Maxwell, MS Zandi, MA Friese, ...

Brain, 2010, 133 (6), 1655-1667