ASPIRE Blog

Zoom – Wed, May 20 – 11:30 AM Central

Resources for Kids, Teens & Young Adults with PANS/PANDAS Living with PANS/PANDAS can impact school, friendships, activities, and family life. Managing appointments, treatments, symptoms, and explaining the condition to others […]

Zoom – September 24 – 7:00 PM Eastern

Zoom-Tues, Oct 13 – 7:30 PM Eastern

Zoom – September 22, 7:00 pm

Who Shows Up—and Who Vanishes—When Your Kid Is in Trouble? By Jessica Slice September 9, 2026 This piece hit very close to home. I’ve been part of the autism community, […]

As a PANS/PANDAS organization, our involvement is important. PANS/PANDAS can occur in autistic individuals, and the Plan’s increased attention to co-occurring medical conditions and neurodevelopmental regression creates an important opportunity […]

Earlier Recognition Can Reduce Avoidable Harm and Expense PANS and PANDAS are immune-mediated conditions characterized by sudden or newly worsening neuropsychiatric symptoms, including obsessive-compulsive symptoms, restricted eating, anxiety, cognitive impairment, […]

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, 2024.

National Grief Awareness Day is a good time to recognize a kind of grief that is often hard to describe. For those who have PANS and PANDAS and for the […]

Bills would make Michigan the 17th state to mandate health coverage for treatment of syndrome tied to strep and other infections.

Dozens of Michigan children with a rare psychiatric disorder linked to previous infections would gain access to treatments known to curb their symptoms under legislation introduced in the Michigan House in late July. The bill pairs with a Senate measure introduced last year.

Autoantibodies &  Altered Antiviral Immune Responses in a Subset of Children With PANS   A recent study conducted by researchers at Stanford University offers further evidence of immune dysregulation and […]