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School Nurses play an integral role in the health of students. School nurses support students and student health every day of the year. Children with PANS/PANDAS have complex physical and mental health conditions that benefit from the support of a school nurse. Share directly from this page or download it to email or print.

There are invaluable resources to help clinicians learn how to recognize PANS PANDAS symptoms, do a workup to inform a possible diagnosis, and create a treatment plan. ASPIRE has assembled this one-page Clinician Toolkit but there are many resources throughout the website, and we are always adding more. So, check the website often. Available as a PDF and a png. The PDF has clickable links so it is perfect for emailing to a provider.

PANS PANDAS & Eating Disorders/Food Restrictions – Full Packet of Recent studies and Flyer. Please note that the Flyer is also available in two poster sizes also.

The ASPIRE information packet on Advances in Research divides the research into sections in order to make it easy to review current research on a specific topic: JCAP diagnostic and treatment guidelines, disease mechanisms and the various treatment options. Share directly from this page or download it to email or print.

Fallon BA, Madsen T, Erlangsen A, Benros ME. Lyme Borreliosis and Associations With Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behavior: A Nationwide Danish Cohort Study. Am J Psychiatry. 2021 Oct 1;178(10):921-931. doi: […]

About Assessments Child Find: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA ’04) requires states to develop a  system for identifying, locating, and evaluating all children with disabilities ages birth […]

PANS & Eating Restrictions This section on Restrictive Eatings at School is part of a larger section on Restrictive Eating seen in PANS PANDAS.  Make sure to read the entire […]

Theodora A. Manolis, M.D., Evdoxia J. Apostolopoulos, B.Sc., Antonis A. Manolis, M.S., B.Sc., Helen Melita, M.D., Antonis S. Manolis, M.D., COVID-19 Infection: A Neuropsychiatric Perspective. 19 Jul 2021. Jnl of […]

This is the first of a series of interviews with influential PANDAS/PANS and Lyme advocates. How do they DO it? How do they contend with their own challenges as well […]

I have had the privilege of getting to know Cici a little bit this year, and we had chatted about her sharing part of her PANS PANDAS BGE experience with […]

ASPIRE has signed a letter to Congressman Schrader and Congressman Kinzinger to support the BIOSIM Act. This act would accelerate patient access to new biosimilar treatments by providing a temporary […]

Liu X, Wang X, Zhang X, et al. Allergic diseases influence symptom severity and T lymphocyte subgroups of children with tic disorders. Jnl Investigative Medicine. 13 July 2021. DOI: 10.1136/jim-2021-001788 […]