"Yale scientists may have found a cause for the sudden onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in some children, they report. Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders, or PANDAS, were...
Antibodies From Children With PANDAS Bind Specifically to Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons and Alter Their Activity Jian Xu, Rong-Jian Liu, Shaylyn Fahey, Luciana Frick, James Leckman, Flora Vaccarino, Ronald S. Duman, Kyle Williams, Susan Swedo, and Christopher Pittenger. Am Jrnl of Psychiatry 16 Jun 2020 https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.19070698
See ASPIRE’s interview with Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, FAPA, FANA on this study.
Romy runs an Instagram and Facebook account Tourettics Unite to spread awareness on Tourettes, OCD, and PANS/PANDAS. She and I have been touch a little bit over the past few months, and I have been...
ASPIRE created an electronic poster for the National Council for Behavioral Health (NATCON) conference. The poster is really a mini-website with a comprehensive overview of PANS/PANDAS including...
Please complete this study from the Karolinksa Institute on PAN/PANDAS during the Corona Pandemic. It will only take up to ten minutes. If you have several children with PANS/PANDAS, you can take the...
ASPIRE thanks the NECH team for continuing to host talks and having ASPIRE write notes to share with the community. Patients of Dr. O’Hara and Dr. Wells can ask additional...
In response to the COVID-19, a global pandemic, that has affected all of our lives, ASPIRE is putting together a series of Q&As from a variety of professionals. We will be updating this resource...
Recently Dr. O’Hara and Vicki Kobliner held a Question & Answer zoom meeting for topics including COVID-19, Lyme, PANS...
Viral Pandemics as Possible Psycho-immunological Causes of Psychiatric Symptoms: From Past to Present
Aytac HM, Pehlivan S. Viral Pandemics as Possible Psycho-immunological Causes of Psychiatric Symptoms: From Past to Present. Sağlık Bilimlerinde İleri Araştırmalar Dergisi 2020; 3(Suppl.1): S92-S98. https://doi.org/10.26650/JARHS2020-S1-0012
So here we are, graduating by the skin of our teeth. Today with 13 months of sobriety. Just out of another flare in March, as allergies also trigger his immune system, he is holding a job down in a...
Antibiotics are the standard of care for Lyme disease treatment. However, it is reported that 10 to 20% of people continue to suffer from Lyme disease after being diagnosed and given a standard...
Avis Chan 1, Angeline Truong 2, Bahare Farhadian 3, Theresa Willett 2, Melissa Silverman 1, Paula Tran 1, Margo Thienemann 2 and Jennifer Frankovich4, 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, 2Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, 3Stanford Immune Behavioral Health Clinic and PANS Research Program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, 4Stanford
The 2020 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium, originally scheduled for April 29 – May 2, was postponed due to COVID-19; therefore, abstracts were not presented as scheduled.
Conclusion: Our study shows that CFS/ME occurs in 1 in 6 patients with AEO-OCD. The prevalence rate is much higher than the general adolescent population (1 in 100-200). This underscores the need to systematically assess fatigue in this group of patients. Future studies should determine possible shared biological underpinnings between AEO-OCD/PANS and CFS/ME.
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