Please help ASPIRE with a PANS Awareness Day project. Please submit one or two sentences on “What do you want people to know about PANS/PANDAS?” via the form below. We will use your...
Speaker: Craig Shimasaki, PHd, MBA Webinar: Can Infections Really Trigger Neuropsychiatric and Behavioral Disorders? Understanding a Biological Basis for Autoimmune Attacks on the Brain Date/Time:...
Octapharma/PACE Foundation IVIG Trial UPDATE: 9-22-22 Octapharma has recently announced that the IVIG Trial had passed the standard safety and administrative checks required by the FDA. The pause...
In stories of heartbreak and healing, they describe how the symptoms of these disorders really look behind closed doors and how relentlessly fighting for the right diagnosis and treatment led their...
On November 13, 2020, The Texas Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome Advisory Council met for the first...
“So many people say, ‘What are you doing for yourself?’ which is a nice sentiment, but it just further divides me and those people,” Taylor said. “What they don’t understand is that I...
Speaker: Sheilah Gauch, LICSW, M.Ed Webinar: Understanding and Managing Caregiver Trauma Associated with PANS PANDAS Date/Time: November 29 7:00-9:00 pm EST Register for this webinar: Via Zoom!...
The current false dichotomy holds back research and stigmatises...
Wayne, Charlotte Remy. Roles of Th17 cytokines in microglial and neurovascular responses to recurrent intranasal Streptococcus pyogenes infections. 2022 Theses Doctoral. Columbia Academic Commons. https://doi.org/10.7916/62va-6330
Academic Units: Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Studies
Thesis Advisors: Agalliu, Dritan
Degree: Ph.D., Columbia University
Published: September 7, 2022
Our friend gave ASPIRE permission to share this letter to her 14-year-old self. Many of us know how it feels to be too affected by PANS/PANDAS/BGE to go to school. We have felt how scary it is to...
Speaker: Vicki Kobliner, MS, RDN Webinar: Nutritional Interventions in PANS/PANDAS Date/Time: Monday, September 19th, 12:00 pm EST Watch Recorded Webinar: Register to View Materials from...
D Endres, MA Schiele, BC Frye, A Schlump, B Feige, k Nickel, B Berger, M Reisert, H Urbach, K Domschke, N Venhoff, H Prüss, L Tebartz van Elst. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder With Inflammatory Cerebrospinal Fluid Changes and Intrathecal Antinuclear Antibody Staining. Biological Psychiatry. Elsevier. 3 September 2022. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.06.037
Autoimmune-mediated obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during childhood has long been established in the context of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infection. In adult psychiatry, the topic has increasingly gained interest in light of new developments regarding autoimmune encephalitis and autoimmune psychosis. Hence, diagnostic criteria for autoimmune OCD in adulthood have been proposed recently, and the first respective cases were reported. For the detection of neuroinflammatory processes, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis (besides the far more invasive brain biopsy) is considered the most sensitive diagnostic tool. Here, we present 2 paradigmatic OCD patients with inflammatory CSF signals including antinuclear antibody staining in CSF and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)/electroencephalography (EEG) findings compatible with OCD.