September 19, 2024
The Inflammation Factor
Therapists need to be aware of when inflammatory disorders can masquerade as psychiatric conditions Therapy Today – September, 2024 – Lucy McDonald is a counselor at the Children’s...
September 11, 2024
A fresh understanding of OCD is opening routes to new treatments
When my daughter was young, she washed her hands a lot. We might have poked what we thought was gentle fun at her, saying she was “a little bit OCD”. Later, she began to disclose “bad...
August 14, 2024
The inflammation connection: Kids with PANS at high risk for arthritis
The disease is typically as awful as it is sudden: Over a few days, children develop severe anxiety and intense obsessive-compulsive behaviors. They barely sleep and may stop eating. Their schoolwork...
June 20, 2024
A totally new kid’: Parents push for coverage of controversial IV treatment for brain condition
Legislation in the Michigan House would require insurers to cover the treatment for children who suffer from a brain condition believed to be caused by...
May 24, 2024
Urgent call for 2024 AAP Red Book® to update strep testing recommendations.
ASPIRE and other PANS/PANDAS organizations are joining the PANDAS Physician Network in their efforts to call to the Academy of Pediatrics to update the Red Book’s® recently published...
May 23, 2024
Richlands mom looks to spread awareness about neuropsychiatric disorder after both children diagnosed
An Onslow County woman is looking to spread awareness about a neuropsychiatric disorder both her children have been diagnosed with, one she said is often misdiagnosed by...
May 17, 2024
Mother desperate after insurance denies son’s treatment for coverage with serious brain disease
KCTV5 By Sharon Chen Published: May. 17, 2024 at 9:51 AM EDT|Updated: May. 22, 2024 at 3:48 PM EDT “IVIG is intravenous immunoglobulins or immune cells that go in and...
April 25, 2024
Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers:
The evolving evidence of the impact of inflammatory disorders and metabolic conditions, like PANS PANDAS, on mental health conditions is discussed in the latest issue of The Economist....
April 22, 2024
Georgia doesn’t treat this devastating diagnosis in kids – How families are navigating care
Three Georgia mothers say their daughters went from happy, playful girls to children struggling with anxiety and rage...
April 3, 2024
When Infection Sparks Obsession: PANDAS and PANS
When Angela Tang’s teenage son came down with a baffling illness, few households could have been better equipped to deal with it. The family lives in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Both parents are...
March 29, 2024
PANDAS Family granted insurance coverage after 4th attempt
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - After three denials of insurance coverage of a misunderstood disease, a Mt. Juliet family just learned the good news: BlueCross BlueShield has agreed to three months of...
In August of 2014 our daughter, Leah, was 6 years old. We had just returned home from a month-long trip to Illinois to visit family. When we arrived home in Arizona, she suddenly (overnight) developed a fear of vomit.