“…Intrathecal oligoclonal bands synthesis was present in five patients out of 20 tested (25%), and SARS-CoV-2 PCR was positive in four out of 92 tested (4%). Brain imaging was performed in all patients including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 127 patients (81%) and allowed to categorize patients in different categories: 1/non-specific COVID-19-related encephalopathy ( n = 86) [4] , [5] , [8] , [10] : delirium and/or neuropsychiatric changes and/or seizures, without pleiocytosis or brain imaging abnormalities consistent with inflammation, but microvascular acute lesions in nine patients [4] , [10] ; 2/acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM, n = 13) [8] , [9] , [12] , [13] , [14] including one patient with the acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalopathy form [8] and two patients with restricted diffusion lesions raising the question of CNS small vessel vasculitis as differential diagnosis [12] , [13] ; 3/acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE, n = 4) [9] , [15] , [16] ; 4/limbic encephalitis ( n = 9) [5] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [17] , [18] ; 5/Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis ( n = 5) [5] , [8] , [10] , [19] ; 6/encephalopathy with focal or diffuse leptomeningeal abnormalities ( n = 13) [9] , [10] ; 7/miscellaneous encephalopathy and encephalitis with other clinical or radiological findings: encephalitis with pleiocytosis and normal brain MRI ( n = 9) [10] , [20] , [21] , encephalitis with akathisia and chorea ( n = 1) [5] , cytotoxic lesion of the corpus callosum ( n = 3) [9] , [10] , [22] , focal or multifocal cortical FLAIR hyperintensities ( n = 2) [4] , [23] , white matter and/or basal ganglia lesions without mention of ADEM or ANE ( n = 11) [9] , ...…”