It is a New Year and a new decade. Everyone is making resolutions. But you are still dealing with PANS/PANDAS. So how do we make resolutions that empower us and don’t set us up to fail or forget...
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) as surveyed in...
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...
Print and take to your next appointment! You do not want to leave an appointment with more questions than you had going in. You need to clarify the lab results, what they mean, and what treatments...
Track and Rate PANS PANDAS Symptoms Tracking symptoms is a critical part of making a clinical diagnosis and forming treatment plans. ASPIRE has assembled the most used symptom tracking and rating...
PANS/PANDAS is not the same as traditional OCD or a tic disorder; the onset and concurrent symptoms and, in some cases, the severity of the OCD set these disorders apart. It is critical to get the...
What is the relationship between PANS & PANDAS and Tourette’s syndrome? Susan Swedo, MD and Gabriella True sit down to discuss the relationship between PANS & PANDAS and...
Sensory & Motor Abnormalities are one of the main PANS PANDAS symptom categories In PANS, sensory and motor abnormalities both fall into one of the seven categories of the PANS diagnostic...
It is never too early to become a PANS PANDAS advocate! Public awareness of PANS PANDAS happens one person at a time, and we need your help! Increasing awareness improves outcomes of those suffering...
Our students are PANS PANDAS strong! As we begin to wrap up the school year, we see many kids receiving praise for scholastic achievement. Let us take the time to honor all of the PANS PANDAS...
PANS/PANDAS patients are commonly misdiagnosed with Autism, Tourette’s Syndrome, OCD, bipolar disorder, ADHD, Oppositional Defiance, or with an eating disorder. However, PANS/PANDAS patients can...
At first glance, someone PANS and someone with OCD may appear pretty similar. They both have obsessions, compulsions, anxiety, and these symptoms cause significant distress, interfere with daily...
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They say that when your child has PANS/PANDAS that you often remember the exact moment something changed. For our oldest son, Neely, that “moment of change” happened in front of Dumbo in Fantasyland, he was six (first grade). As I stood there with our two-year-old in the stroller and crying and pregnant with our third […]