"Last week, in part one of our two-part look into PANDAS/PANS, teens Gino Vitelli and Abby Gauch, along with their mothers, told their stories of living with the auto-immune disease. This week, in...
‘He woke up an altogether different child’: Massachusetts families speak on living with PANDAS/PANS Wicked Local. By James Kukstis. Sep 24, 2020 Part one of our look into PANDAS/PANS Read...
For young children, an innocuous sore throat could be a sign of PANDAS (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders), a condition that a Solana Beach-based doctor has been centering his practice...
Yale scientists may have found a cause for the sudden onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in some children, they...
"Yale scientists may have found a cause for the sudden onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in some children, they report. Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders, or PANDAS, were...
Stanford University researchers have discovered subtle structural differences in the brains of children with a rare condition that seemingly causes their personalities to change overnight....
Researchers may have gained new insights into a mystifying condition that causes children's behavior to change so severely and abruptly, it can be like they woke up as a different...
We thought we treated it appropriately. We followed the doctor’s initial recommendations for treating our son’s Lyme disease. He got a little better with the antibiotics but never went back to...
“I was so shocked I just took the picture because I didn’t even believe what I was seeing,” she said of a photo she snapped that went viral on social media. “It’s not an appropriate place...
One might think, because PANDAS/PANS strikes children, passing the bill would be a slam dunk, but Uttam said it’s failed twice in Massachusetts already. It has, however, passed in five other...
I’ve been talking a lot recently about my experience of having Paediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (an illness which, despite its name, affects adults too), and how I was undiagnosed...
OCONOMOWOC — Eliza Ellis should be taking her first steps into adulthood. Instead, the 19-year-old requires around-the-clock care in her Oconomowoc home. "Always thought that right after high...
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.