what autoimmune disease attacks the brain?
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['Autoimmune encephalitis.', 'Autoimmune-related epilepsy.', 'Central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis.', "Hashimoto's encephalopathy (steroid-responsive encephalopathy)", 'Neuromyelitis optica.', 'Optic neuritis.', 'Neurosarcoidosis.', "Neuro-Behcet's disease."]
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Autoimmune Disease Basics Rheumatoid arthritis, a form of arthritis that attacks the joints. Psoriasis, a condition marked by thick, scaly patches of skin. Psoriatic arthritis, a type of arthritis affecting some people with psoriasis. Lupus, a disease that damages areas of the body that include joints, skin and organs.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, which leads to the development of focal inflammatory lesions with secondary axonal damage.
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Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can affect almost any part of the body, most often the joints, skin, kidneys, heart, lungs, blood, or brain. Lupus can also affect the gastrointestinal (GI) system. The GI system is your body's pathway for taking in, processing, and disposing of everything you eat and drink.
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Often the disease starts during a woman's childbearing years (ages 15 to 44). Some autoimmune diseases are more common in certain ethnic groups. For example, lupus affects more African-American and Hispanic people than Caucasians. Certain autoimmune diseases, like multiple sclerosis and lupus, run in families.
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It's not known why autoimmune urticaria develops, although it can sometimes occur in combination with other autoimmune conditions, such as: rheumatoid arthritis – when the immune system attacks the joints. lupus –when the immune system attacks the joints and skin, and people usually feel tired all the time.
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Autoimmune pancreatitis, also called AIP, is a chronic inflammation that is thought to be caused by the body's immune system attacking the pancreas and that responds to steroid therapy. Two subtypes of AIP are now recognized, type 1 and type 2.
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Cancer often develops because the immune system failed to do its job in attacking defective cells, allowing the cells to divide and grow. Conversely, an autoimmunity—a faulty immune response that leads to diseases such as colitis and lupus—occurs when the immune system has mistakenly attacked healthy cells.
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Acquired aplastic anemia is usually considered an autoimmune disease . Normally, your immune system attacks only foreign substances. When your immune system attacks your own body, you are said to have an autoimmune disease. Other autoimmune diseases include rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
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Lupus is a long-term autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue. Symptoms include inflammation, swelling, and damage to the joints, skin, kidneys, blood, heart, and lungs.
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In cases of immune system overactivity, the body attacks and damages its own tissues (autoimmune diseases). Immune deficiency diseases decrease the body's ability to fight invaders, causing vulnerability to infections.
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Type 1 diabetes (also known as diabetes mellitus) is an autoimmune disease in which immune cells attack and destroy the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. The loss of insulin leads to the inability to regulate blood sugar levels. Patients are usually treated by insulin-replacement therapy.
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It therefore seems reasonable to hypothesise that arachnoiditis may be an autoimmune condition, possibly involving antibodies that affect the fibrinolytic pathway, such as antiplasminogen antibodies (seen in Rheumatoid Arthritis), in response to an insult to the arachnoid meninges, especially when that insult is ...
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Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is an autoimmune disorder, in which the body's immune system attacks its own healthy cells. There are two types of AIP: Type 1, which is more common, affects the pancreas and other organs in the body, including the liver and gallbladder. Type 2 associated with inflammatory bowel disease.
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Autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) is caused by the development of autoimmunity against thyroid antigens and comprises Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Graves disease. They are frequently associated with other organ or non-organ specific AIDs, such as myasthenia gravis (MG).
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Autoimmune diseases result from a failure of the body's own defenses against disease. The immune system loses its ability to tell the difference between foreign materials and its own cells. So the body starts attacking its own organs and tissues.
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What is type 1 diabetes? -Auto-immune disease that attacks & kills the Beta-cells (insulin producing cells) in the pancreas.