University of Connecticut Parents/Caregivers Wanted for a Research Study on Families’ Experiences with PANS (Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) We will be conducting interviews with...
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We thought we treated it appropriately. We followed the doctor’s initial recommendations for treating our son’s Lyme disease. He got a little better with the antibiotics but never went back to...
GiuseppaPiras, LorenzaRattazzi
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 29 February 2020
Patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have increased levels of Immuno-moodulin (Imood), a protein in their lymphocytes, a type of immune cell.
Anxious mice returned to normal in a couple of days after being given an antibody that blocked Imood. Twenty-three people with OCD and twenty healthy people without OCD were tested; Imood expression was about six times higher in those with OCD. Additional research indicates the same protein, Immod, is elevated in ADHD.
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