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Diagnostics, Differential Diagnostics And The Treatment Of Pandas Syndrome – Case Description Mukhtorjonova Khusnigul Nodirbekovna, Tukhtabayeva Kamila Abrarovna, Tashkent Padiatric Medical Institute. World Bulletin of Public Health (WBPH). Volume-6, January […]

Attention Parents and Guardians of children with PANS/PANDAS! The University at Buffalo occupational therapy program is conducting a study of caregiver experiences and stress among parents/guardians of children with PANS/ […]

Examining possible root causes of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Psychology Times by Odelya Gertel Kraybill Ph.D. Key points OCD can be rooted in immune response. OCD can be triggered by infections that […]

McHugh A, Chan A, Herrera C, Park JM, Balboni I, Gerstbacher D, Hsu JJ, Lee T, Thienemann M, Frankovich J. Profiling Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Children undergoing treatment for […]

McNally JD, Menon K, Chakraborty P, Fisher L, Williams KA, Al-Dirbashi OY, Doherty DR; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. The association of vitamin D status with pediatric critical illness. Pediatrics. […]

M. Della Corte, C. Delehaye, E. Savastano, M.F. De Leva, P. Bernardo, A. Varone, Neuropsychiatric syndrome with myoclonus after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a paediatric patient, Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, Volume […]

Letter to the Edito. Antistreptolysin-O Titers: Implications for Adult PANDAS. ANDREW J. CHURCH, B.SC., and RUSSELL C. DALE, M.B.CH.B., M.R.C.P., London, U.K. Published Online:1 Feb 2002. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.2.320 To the Editor: […]

Kumaraswamy MS, Cornelius LP, Shanthi B. PANDAS: Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Group A Streptococci and its Intricacy with Rheumatic Heart Disease – Case Report. Postgrad J Pediatr Adol […]

Thank you to everyone who took a moment to celebrate the successes of the past year so our community can carry hope into 2022!            

Parthasarathy G, Gadila SKG. Neuropathogenicity of non-viable Borrelia burgdorferi ex vivo. Sci Rep. 2022 Jan 13;12(1):688. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-03837-0. PMID: 35027599; PMCID: PMC8758786. “As neuroinflammation is the basis of many neurological […]

Endres, D., Pollak, T.A., Bechter, K. et al. Immunological causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder: is it time for the concept of an “autoimmune OCD” subtype?. Transl Psychiatry 12, 5 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01700-4 […]

UCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) – A first-of-its-kind children’s research center in Tucson, UA Steele Children’s Research Center, is raising the profile of a largely undiagnosed illness in kids.