Volunteers Needed: We need volunteers to reach out to their municipalities to request that they light up monuments, like the state house, bridges, monuments, etc., be lit up on October 9th,...
🌟 Join IOCDF for a Special PANS PANDAS Town Hall! 🌟 As part of PANS PANDAS Awareness Week, the IOCDF is hosting an incredible Town Hall featuring three inspiring voices:...
In late November of 2023, we noticed that our daughter, Sammi, had a limp. She had fallen and said her knee hurt. The next week, she began acting very tired...
Current Legislative Action Please visit the MI PANS/PANDAS Alliance to stay updated on how you can take legislative action in Michigan. If you are a Michigan parent of a...
What is the cost of not treating PANS/ PANDAS promptly & appropriately? We recently sat down with Susan Swedo, MD, to discuss a critical topic: the cost of inaction when...
California Legislative Action Please follow this page and ASPIRE’s social media for updates – Facebook and Instagram. Please contact CALPANS with questions regarding California legislative...
Bennett was a typically developing 7-year-old boy when he started second grade, the first year back to school full time after COVID-19, without masks. That December, he came down...
Hi! My name is Skylar, and I was diagnosed with PANS in October 2023 after struggling with it for around 10 years. I was 7 or 8 years old...
Therapists need to be aware of when inflammatory disorders can masquerade as psychiatric conditions Therapy Today – September, 2024 – Lucy McDonald is a counselor at the Children’s...
This is the journey of Emily, who is now 16. She began experiencing PANS symptoms in 2020 during the height of COVID-19; before that, Emily was a typical kid and did all the things that girls her age...
Tran, Michael; Amador, Alcides; and Camacho Bermudez, Sofia, “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Other Specified Anxiety Disorder in an 8-Year-Old Post-respiratory Infection: A Case Report” (2024). Research Colloquium. 91.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/colloquium/2024/posters/91
Conclusions: This case underscores the importance of considering infectious etiologies in the differential diagnosis of sudden-onset psychiatric symptoms in pediatric patients. The positive response to Sertraline and the proposed CBT highlights the potential benefits of a combined pharmacological and therapeutic approach in managing OCD and anxiety disorders. Continued follow-up and treatment adaptation is essential to ensure sustained improvement and quality of life for pediatric patients with similar presentations.