LGI1 encephalitis with squamous lung-cell carcinoma: Resolution after tumor resection.

Encephalitis with leucine-rich glioma-inactivated-1 (LGI1) immunoglobulin G (IgG) anti-bodies classically presents with cognitive impairment and characteristic faciobrachial dystonicseizures.1In a murine model, human LGI1 IgG caused reduction of Kv1.1 channels andα-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor receptors resulting in neuro-nal hyperexcitability indicating probable pathogenicity of LGI1 antibodies.2LGI1 autoimmu-nity is associated with malignancy in less than 10% of cases, including small cell lung cancer,prostate and colon cancer, squamous cell skin carcinoma, and neuroendocrine pancreaticcancer.3,4We present a case of LGI1 encephalitis only partially responsive to immunotherapywith eventual complete resolution after resection of a squamous cell lung carcinoma

The world’s best religion : a cross-country study on how religion affects economic growth

Religion and economics until recently were not considered by most to share a relationship. However, the economies of nations are intertwined in institutions, both economic and non-economic. Religion is one such non-economic institution that shares a relationship with the economy, which experts have recently realized, should no longer be ignored. Through the use of cross-sectional data gathered primarily from World Values Survey and Penn World, this paper investigates this relationship between religion and economic growth. It looks particularly at how religion affects economic growth by assessing the effect of religion on one of the channels (human capital) through which growth is directly affected. In addition, this study also assess whether one world religion is more suited for economic growth than others. This paper finds that both religious belief and religious belonging have a positive relationship with growth. This positive relationship that religion shares with growth is determined to not be as a result of the channel of human capital; religion was found to have a negative correlation with human capital. The study also finds that Protestantism is the “best” religion with regard to growth. These results give great insight into how exactly religion affects economic growth