Abbey McLean, MD

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  • 2020–2024Active
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  • 3Citations2

About

Abbey McLean, MD, is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Between 2020 and 2024, McLean published extensively on neuropsychiatric conditions, including seizure disorders related to N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor antibody encephalitis, catatonia following COVID-19 infection, and neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus. Additional work has addressed the neuropsychiatric manifestations of nutritional deficiencies such as Wernicke’s encephalopathy and cobalamin deficiency-induced mania. McLean frequently collaborates with co-authors including David R. Spiegel and Aaron Lopacinski.

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Seizures Due to Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis With Unremarkable Imaging Evaluations
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Seizures Due to Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis With Unremarkable Imaging Evaluations

January 11, 2024

Management options for women with anti-NMDAR encephalitis and high clinical probability of ovarian tumor (OT) but negative imaging studies include immunotherapy without further search for OT, repetitive screening for...
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Catatonia During Post-Acute Phase of COVID-19
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Catatonia During Post-Acute Phase of COVID-19

June 14, 2022

Here, the authors present the case of a patient who developed catatonia post-acute COVID-19 infection, as well as a possible mechanism of COVID-19 infection affecting neurotransmitters posited to be...
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Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Masquerading as MDD
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Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Masquerading as MDD

May 17, 2022

The authors present the case of a patient who was admitted to the hospital and misdiagnosed with severe depression after being diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum.
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Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and IV Immunoglobulin
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Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and IV Immunoglobulin

March 15, 2022

Here, read about a patient with new-onset mania, with unreported elevated anti-double stranded DNA and systemic lupus erythematosus.
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Case Report

Cobalamin Deficiency-Induced Mania

August 20, 2020

Cobalamin deficiency has hematologic, neurologic, and psychiatric sequelae. This report describes a patient with no prior psychiatric history but with past history of total gastrectomy who developed mania.
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