July 31, 2021
The Brain’s Way of Healing
The Brain’s Way of Healing describes natural, noninvasive avenues into the brain provided by the energy around us—in light, sound, vibration, and movement—that can awaken the brain’s own...
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July 30, 2021
PANDAS and Lyme disease in a 7-year-old child
The article by Cross et al. entitled “Case Report: PANDAS and Persistent Lyme disease with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: Treatment, Resolution and Recovery” was published in Frontiers in Psychiatry....
July 30, 2021
IOCDF Virtual Voices for Mental Health: An Online Day of Action
Virtual Voices for Mental Health program 2021 ASPIRE is again partnering with IOCDF on Virtual Voices for Mental Health program in which we call on our community to contact their...
July 29, 2021
Toolkit – ASPIRE Overview of PANS PANDAS Information
Overview – of PANS/PANDAS Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment. For more in-depth information, please see the www.aspire.care website directly. Share directly from this page or download it to email...
July 29, 2021
Toolkit – PANS PANDAS in the School Setting
PANS PANDAS in the School Setting Toolkit Information at your fingertips Click the button below to download the twenty-page toolkit that provides information on School Impacts and Supports for PANS...
July 29, 2021
School Nurse Role & Toolkit
School Nurses play an integral role in the health of students. School nurses support students and student health every day of the year. Children with PANS/PANDAS have complex physical and mental...
July 29, 2021
Toolkit – PANS PANDAS Clinician Quick Resources
There are invaluable resources to help clinicians learn how to recognize PANS PANDAS symptoms, do a workup to inform a possible diagnosis, and create a treatment plan. ASPIRE has assembled this...
July 29, 2021
Toolkit – Current Research Studies Information
The ASPIRE information packet on Advances in Research divides the research into sections in order to make it easy to review current research on a specific topic: JCAP diagnostic and treatment...
Lyme Borreliosis and Associations With Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behavior: A Nationwide Danish Cohort Study
Fallon BA, Madsen T, Erlangsen A, Benros ME. Lyme Borreliosis and Associations With Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behavior: A Nationwide Danish Cohort Study. Am J Psychiatry. 2021 Oct 1;178(10):921-931. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.20091347. Epub 2021 Jul 28. PMID: 34315282.
- Results showed that individuals with Lyme borreliosis had higher rates of mental disorders, affective disorders, suicide attempts, and death by suicide compared to those without Lyme borreliosis.
- The 6-month interval after diagnosis had the highest rate of any mental disorder, and the first 3 years after diagnosis had the highest rate of suicide.
- Multiple episodes of Lyme borreliosis were associated with increased incidence rate ratios for mental disorders, affective disorders, and suicide attempts.
- Clinicians should be mindful of the potential psychiatric consequences of Lyme borreliosis, despite the low absolute population risk.
July 25, 2021
School Evaluations for PANS PANDAS
About Assessments Child Find: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA ’04) requires states to develop a system for identifying, locating, and evaluating all children...
July 24, 2021
PANS & Eating Restrictions at School & Handout
PANS & Eating Restrictions This section on Restrictive Eatings at School is part of a larger section on Restrictive Eating seen in PANS PANDAS. Make sure to read the entire...
COVID-19 Infection: A Neuropsychiatric Perspective
Theodora A. Manolis, M.D., Evdoxia J. Apostolopoulos, B.Sc., Antonis A. Manolis, M.S., B.Sc., Helen Melita, M.D., Antonis S. Manolis, M.D., COVID-19 Infection: A Neuropsychiatric Perspective. 19 Jul 2021. Jnl of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences. DOI: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20110277
“In addition to acute neuropsychiatric manifestations, COVID-19 may also produce late neuropsychiatric sequelae as a function of the psychoneuroimmunological cascade that it provokes. The present article presents a state-of-the-science review of these issues through an integrative review and synthesis of case series, large-cohort studies, and relevant meta-analyses. Heuristics for evaluation and further study of the neuropsychiatric manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection are offered.”