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Seeing elephants and drinking water from a porcelain vase - A case of septin-7 antibody-associated encephalitis presenting as a severe disorganized psychosis

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Published Online: 2026-02-11

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Gaebler, Arnim Johannes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8816-3415
Arlt, Friederike A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0112-8685
Scharf, Madeleine

Wolking, Stefan

Weber, Yvonne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0806-5592
Tauber, Simone

Kirchner, Marieluise https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7049-534X
Mertins, Philipp

Boy, Christian

Neuner, Irene https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5164-8873
Frodl, Thomas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8113-6959
Tebartz van Elst, Ludger https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2274-5447
Prüss, Harald https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8283-7976
Novakovic, Ana
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Article History

Received: 10 April 2025

Revised: 16 December 2025

Accepted: 28 January 2026

First Online: 11 February 2026

Competing interests

: MS is employee of EUROIMMUN. MS has septin-3 and septin-7 patent applications pending.

: The patient has given her signed written informed consent for this publication, including the presented images and video material. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. Since the present article is a clinical case report, an ethics approval was not required.

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