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By Dr. Lindsey Wells When Dylan becomes sick with an illness that makes him seem like a different person overnight, Sam doesn’t know what to feel or how to handle […]

The Brain’s Way of Healing describes natural, noninvasive avenues into the brain provided by the energy around us—in light, sound, vibration, and movement—that can awaken the brain’s own healing capacities without producing unpleasant side effects. Doidge explores cases where patients alleviated chronic pain; recovered from debilitating strokes, brain injuries, and learning disorders; overcame attention deficit and learning disorders; and found relief from symptoms of autism, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and cerebral palsy.

The article by Cross et al. entitled “Case Report: PANDAS and Persistent Lyme disease with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: Treatment, Resolution and Recovery” was published in Frontiers in Psychiatry. [1]

The 7-year-old girl developed multiple physical and neuropsychiatric symptoms six months after travelling to a tick endemic region of the U.S. During this period, she was treated for 3 separate strep infections and was subsequently diagnosed with Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections (PANDAS). PANDAS was considered based on classic symptoms and a history of strep, a positive ASO titer and a slightly elevated DNase B titer.

Virtual Voices for Mental Health program 2021 ASPIRE is again partnering with IOCDF on Virtual Voices for Mental Health program in which we call on our community to contact their […]

ASPIRE PANS PANDAS Current Resources for General Pediatricians. Share directly from this page or download it to email or print. Or contact us if you would like us to directly email your doctor or provider.

Overview – of PANS/PANDAS Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment. For more in-depth information, please see the www.aspire.care website directly. Share directly from this page or download it to email or print.

PANS PANDAS in the School Setting Toolkit  Information at your fingertips Click the button below to download the twenty-page toolkit that provides information on School Impacts and Supports for PANS […]

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.

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 […]