Understanding PANS PANDAS: Insights from Those Who Live It
Straight from the Heart: Students and Young Adults Share About PANS PANDAS Download PDF version: What I Want My Friends to Know About PANS PANDAS ASPIRE surveyed students and...
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PANS PANDAS Triumphs!
Recent PANS/PANDAS Triumphs Thank you to everyone who took a moment to celebrate your recent success. Your stories provide hope to other families and patients! Would you like to share...
July 22, 2024
World Brain Day 2024
World Brain Day 2024 (WBD 2024), Monday, July 22, is dedicated to Brain Health and Prevention. World Brain Day must include a discussion on PANS/PANDAS. Help us by empowering individuals,...
July 12, 2024
Working Memory Supports with for Students with PANS PANDAS
Strategies and Accommodations for Supporting Students with Working Memory Challenges Students with PANS/PANDAS often face working memory, focus, and processing challenges. These strategies and...
There is HOPE for Healing
My name is Kyra Dugan. I’m 23 now, and five years ago, I would never have been able to guess what was about to happen. Life as I knew...
June 26, 2024
IVIG Trial Recruitment is Closed
Octapharma/PACE Foundation IVIG Trial Update: 6-26-24 Read the Announcement from the PACE Foundation. Given the recent changes posted on ClinicalTrials.Gov, we wanted to update...
May 27, 2024
NEDA Walk – Hartford, Connecticut
ASPIRE will have a table at the NEDA Walk in Hartford, Connecticut! If you have registered for the NEDA Hartford Walk on June 1st, make sure to stop by the...
PANS/PANDAS Treatment brought our daughter back
My daughter has always been anxious & a worrier, and we had attributed that to her learning struggles & severe food allergies. However, no matter these struggles, she always,...
May 24, 2024
Urgent call for 2024 AAP Red Book® to update strep testing recommendations.
ASPIRE and other PANS/PANDAS organizations are joining the PANDAS Physician Network in their efforts to call to the Academy of Pediatrics to update the Red Book’s® recently published...
May 17, 2024
Mother desperate after insurance denies son’s treatment for coverage with serious brain disease
KCTV5 By Sharon Chen Published: May. 17, 2024 at 9:51 AM EDT|Updated: May. 22, 2024 at 3:48 PM EDT “IVIG is intravenous immunoglobulins or immune cells that go in and...
April 25, 2024
Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers:
The evolving evidence of the impact of inflammatory disorders and metabolic conditions, like PANS PANDAS, on mental health conditions is discussed in the latest issue of The Economist....
April 22, 2024
Georgia doesn’t treat this devastating diagnosis in kids – How families are navigating care
Three Georgia mothers say their daughters went from happy, playful girls to children struggling with anxiety and rage...