This rare condition affects about 1 in a million previously healthy children and young adults.
In early June, Hinchman, a business major and volleyball player at Loyola University Chicago, woke up with an achy neck. She thought she had just slept on her pillow wrong, but as the day went on, she developed an intense headache and started running a fever.
She had visible seizures during which her eyes rolled back, her limbs stiffened and she became unresponsive. Batra also observed speech arrest, another type of seizure where she suddenly stopped talking and wouldn’t understand or express any words. At one point, Hinchman was having seizures almost every hour.
“Something triggers the inflammatory response in the body to go haywire, particularly in the brain, and that creates a cascade or a never ending loop of inflammation,” he noted.
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