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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 […]

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed—people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable.