This section are the many archived PANDAS related stories that the media has put forth over the years. This is an excellent way to bring to life the topics that you have read about throughout this website. Thank you to the many families that have opened their homes and shared their stories.
2012
2011 or earlier
2012
- Families fight with PANDAS
- Mom fights for PANDAS diagnosis after son’s sudden onset of OCD symptoms
- PANDAS: A Scary and Controversial Disorder (Parents Magazine)
- Parents in St Louis say mental illness in kids tied to strep
- Pandas Illness / Joshua’s Missing Peace
- Hempfield Mom find support for son with tic disorder
- Could Strep Throat Cause OCD?
- Family shares experience with illness linked to strep
2011 or earlier
- Mount Airy family contends with rare disorder
- Does Strep Throat Trigger Serious Ills? (Wall Street Journal)
- Childhood disorder prompts study of infection link to mental illness (LA Times)
- Local Family Fights to Find Answer to Rare Diagnosis
- Brandon Scharlow overcomes childhood disorder to be stabilizing lineman for Holland
- Triangle families among those battling obscure PANDAS illness (2011)
- Looking for answers: Unknown disease baffles local family (2011)
- One mother’s story: How strep throat attacked my child’s brain (2009)
- Brain, behavior may suffer after infection (2011) Various families contributed to this piece
- PANDAS – a frightening condition, thought to be caused by the common ‘strep throat’ bacteria…(2010)
- Medical Mystery: What explained second-grader’s sudden panic and obsessions PDF Downloads available without the need of signing into any accounts:Little boy, big fears page 1 and Little boy, big fears page 2
- PANDAS Stories for the OT Mind (pages 11-23)
- Catching OCD from an Infection
- Five-year-old boy diagnosed with a rare disorder
- PANDAS How Strep can Turn into Serious Condition
- Researchers study rare disorder in children (2011)
- Strep infection sometimes leads to sudden tics in children(2011)
- B.C. boy with rare disorder gets experimental treatment (2011)
- Helping Children with P.A.N.D.A.S. (2010)
- Unusual behavior can be side effect of strep infection
- Bless you! Girl who kept sneezing has stopped
- One mother’s battle to save her son from OCD
- A 7 year old’s battle with PANDAS
- Jamie’s Story: Our child’s recovery from PANDAS
