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Ng QX, Lim YL, Loke W, Yeo WS, Chee KT. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and Functional Urinary Disorders: A Fortuitous Association? Behavioral Sciences. 2021; 11(6):89. DOI: 10.3390/bs11060089 Patients with OC symptoms appeared […]

PANS PANDAS is medically complex. In order to have an informed discussion with your providers, it can be helpful to track symptoms, exposures to triggers, and medications.   This Medication Log […]

Tips for Taking Medicine It can be challenging to get kids to take their medicine. Below is a Pill Swallowing Protocol for learning how to swallow pills. But in the […]

Keep a copy for yourself. Hand deliver and ask for a date stamp or send with Return Receipt to establish timeline or email as an attachment. (Parent/Guardian Name) (Home Address) […]

Print and take to your next appointment! You do not want to leave an appointment with more questions than you had going in. You need to clarify the lab results, […]

Track and Rate PANS PANDAS Symptoms Tracking symptoms is a critical part of making a clinical diagnosis and forming treatment plans. ASPIRE has assembled the most used symptom tracking and […]

So, I noticed Sam posting about Tourette Syndrome (TS), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and PANS PANDAS (PP) on Instagram a few months ago. And my first thought was – oooh […]

Giggle Magazine article on PANDAS.   Page 23-24 of their June/July 2021 issue is available online.  

PANS/PANDAS is not the same as traditional OCD or a tic disorder; the onset and concurrent symptoms and, in some cases, the severity of the OCD set these disorders apart. […]

Part 3: Navigating medical conditions masquerading as primary psychopathology Anthony D. Smith LMHC, Posted May 29, 2021 “Perhaps some of the most interesting cases of medical conditions disguised as psychological […]

What is the relationship between PANS & PANDAS and Tourette’s syndrome? Susan Swedo, MD and Gabriella True sit down to discuss the relationship between PANS & PANDAS and Tourette’s Syndrome. […]

Raposo-Lima, C., Pereira, I.M., Marques, F. et al. Elevated levels of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin among OCD patients: an exploratory study. BMC Psychiatry 21, 272 (2021). DOI: 10.1186/s12888-021-03289-w “Although PANDAS might […]