encephalitis

somewhere in all that movie when rod was younger he gets sick with what the family called i'm doing quotes here encephalitis his mother testifies that the doctors told her that he might not live through the night

yeah what's encephalitis

good question josh Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain tissue, a viral infection usually, or an immune system that turns on the brain by mistake.

It's serious.

Untreated, it can kill in days.

Welcome to the encephalitis podcast.

My name is Prav Prathapin and I'm from Encephalitis International.

Today we are joined by Lisa Lauter.

Lisa Lauter, BNSC, MPH is a health advocate, a retired nurse and a survivor of LGI-1 autoimmune encephalitis.

Her career in public health has taken her around the world, from Beijing, China, to Houston, Texas, USA.

Since 2020, Lisa has served as a support group leader for the Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's a pleasure to have you and yeah, really excited to talk about your upcoming book, which we'll get to towards the end of the podcast.

I would like to, on future episodes, get some professionals on, some doctors on and talk to them about these diseases.

I've worked very closely with Encephalitis International, Meningitis Now, two charities I worked close with when I was in the hospital bed.

So as a partner, how was it to go through that watching me?

I think, look, you know, you were going through a lot.

Welcome to the encephalitis podcast.

My name is Prav Prathapin and I'm from Encephalitis International.

Today we'll be talking about post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD after encephalitis.

To learn more I'm grateful to be speaking to Dr. Andrea Pickering.

Dr. Andrea Pickering is a consultant clinical psychologist who specializes in pediatric clinical neuropsychology, supporting children and young people with complex developmental, neurological and mental health needs.

And there might be a repeating pattern to the theme of the nightmares relating to the event.

What these essentially are, are free floating memories that have not been adequately processed into memory.

And so we'll talk a little bit more about that in terms of encephalitis later.

Right.

So neuroimmune encephalitis is different.

Encephalitis is a completely different beast.

Which is good for me to know because I've been saying, hey, this to my understanding is encephalitis.

So that is corrective medicine.