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 legislators to ask...
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...
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...
Please support Gianfranco’s Online Wine Fundraiser Gianfranco’s daughter was diagnosed with PANS PANDAS three years ago. ASPIRE is so thankful that he has chosen to do a fundraiser for us...
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...
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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 […]