Limbic encephalitis (LE) is a temporal lobe inflammatory disorder characterized by seizures, short - term memory deficits, and behavioral disturbances.
Inhibitory axons are targeted in hippocampal cell culture by anti-Caspr2 autoantibodies associated with
limbic encephalitis.
«The first question to arise... is whether the assertion of a connection between carcinoma [cancer] and «
limbic encephalitis» is now justified, even if it can not be explained,» he wrote in a 1968 paper in the journal Brain.