ASPIRE Blog

Success!  Ben’s cookie fundraiser was incredibly successful! Ben and his family combined a fundraiser with an awareness event.  They took cookie preorders and sold cookies and beverages near their home. […]

Is It Mental Health or Medical? PANDAS/PANS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infection/Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) The Family Court was created to focus special attention on individual and […]

CDC’s Autism Numbers The CDC has released the new estimated Autism Prevalence rates. They report that 1 in 44 or 2.27% of American 8-year-olds have an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) […]

Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents is the first and only book to provide a completely parent-based treatment program for child and adolescent anxiety.

V Nezgovorova, CJ Ferretti, S Pallanti, E Hollander. Modulating neuroinflammation in COVID-19 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.11.025. Abstract: Exacerbation of symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder […]

Our family and B have gone through so much since December 2018. It has been completely devastating emotionally, mentally, physically, and financially. At the time, there didn’t seem to be […]

Sabine Hazan, MD, Sheldon Jordan, MD. SARS-CoV-2 as a Trigger in the Development of Tourette’s-Like Symptoms: A Case Report, 15 November 2021, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square DOI: […]

You are being invited to participate in a research study of the University of Connecticut, called Experiences of Families Affected by PANS/PANDAS Around the World. Patients and parents of patients […]

Tang, A. W., Appel, H. J., Bennett, S. C., Forsyth, L. H., Glasser, S. K., Jarka, M. A., Kory, P. D., Malik, A. N., Martonoffy, A. I., Wahlin, L. K., […]

J Schnell, M Bond, N Moll, E Weidinger, B Burger, R Bond, A Dietrich, PJ. Hoekstra, A Schrag, D Martino, M Schwarz, U-X Meier, N Müller. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. […]

Sizgoric MK, Kovac Sizgoric M, Miculinic A, et al. Clinical manifestations of patients with PANDAS in patients followed up at Srebrnjak children’s hospital in 5-year period. Archives of Disease in […]

A Krouse, H Li, JA Krenzer, WN Rose. Plasmapheresis, Rituximab, and Ceftriaxone Provided Lasting Improvement for a 27-Year-Old Adult Male with PANDAS. Dept of Pathology, University of Wisconsin Hospital. Article […]