The stunning increase in PANS/PANDAS post-Pandemic. How the psychological stress of lockdowns, quarantines , and fear worsened a vulnerable generation of children.

In this presentation, you will learn how PANDAS/PANS is assessed both from a psychologic and physiologic perspective. This unique dichotomy of two seperate systems being directly correlated into one condition will be explained. By connecting the two viewers will have an understanding how stress and immune function influence the acute and chronic inflammatory response and can lead to molecular mimicry, which is at the heart of this autoimmune encephalitis.