PPN maintains industry standard guidelines for diagnostics and therapeutics, fosters continuous education and communication with the multidisciplinary medical community and sponsors research for...
Section on Behavioral Pediatrics (SBP) at the NIMH has information on PANS/PANDAS. Sue Swedo, MD, former Chief of the SBP at the NIMH, discovered that OCD, tics and other symptoms occurred after a...
The Stanford PANS Clinic was established in 2012 to build a comprehensive program with the goal of orchestrating groundbreaking research while providing tailored care for patients and families....
CPAE was founded in 2017 in collaboration with The University of Arizona and Banner-University Medicine in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). CPAE was the first center...
A number of universities have started multidisciplinary clinics since 2018. These centers are improving access to care and advancing high-quality research. Massachusetts General Hospita University of...
A Child's Introduction to Understanding PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococci) is a book aimed at helping parents explain to children this complex...
his book is about one family’s journey with PANS (Pediatric Auto-Immune Neuro-Psychiatric Syndrome). PANS is an illness that is conservatively believed to affect more than 160,000 children in the...
What causes mental illness? We've long blamed stress, trauma, and brain-chemistry imbalances. But a new theory is quietly achieving critical mass. In INFECTIOUS MADNESS, award-winning science writer...
A groundbreaking approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other intractable behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in this...
Parents push for coverage, awareness of rare syndrome. Local families grappling with a rare and elusive syndrome will make the case for greater acknowledgement and support at the State House...
Sonja Orlovska, MD; Claus Høstrup Vestergaard, MS; Bodil Hammer Bech, PhD; Merete Nordentoft, DrMed; Mogens Vestergaard, PhD; Michael Eriksen Benros, PhD
JAMA Psychiatry-2017
The findings reported in this research study represent one of the largest retrospective studies conducted to date on the association between streptococcal infections and PANDAS. Children with a previously positive streptococcus test had an 18% higher risk of any mental disorder, 51% higher risk of OCD, and 35% higher risk of tic disorders, which are diagnostic criteria for PANDAS. Study findings support the association of streptococcal and non-streptococcal infections in the diagnosis of pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Conclusions: The interactions between EDs and autoimmune diseases support the previously reported associations. The bidirectional risk pattern observed in women suggests either a shared mechanism or a third mediating variable contributing to the association of these illnesses.