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One month after discharge, the patient represented with worsening frank and well-formed visual hallucinations, ataxia and progressive cognitive impairment. Progress MRI displayed characteristic T2 ribboning on diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequences, along with periodic sharp wave complexes on electroencephalogram (EEG) and a raised CSF protein 14-3-3. Repeat serum, as well as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), GAD antibodies were again markedly elevated as measured by ELISA (RSR, Cardiff, UK), although archival CSF from the original presentation as well as CSF from the second presentation had undetectable GAD autoantibodies as measured via radioimmunoassay (DIAsource, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). 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