Neuropsychiatry

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are the pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with infections.

So PANDAS refers to specifically strep infection, whereas PANS refers to kind of like dementia as the umbrella.

PANS refers to that this can be from long COVID, it can be Lyme, it can be mycoplasma, chlamydia, cytomegalovirus, a whole lot of other things can trigger these symptoms in kids.

And it refers to also the health of the immune system.

So our team feels, you know, and we're not the only thing that we should be looking at, like the stuff that we're interested in.

I mean, this is what we're studying, the role of infection and the immune response to infection in the diseases that target the brain that are neurodegenerative, neuropsychiatric.

and otherwise, but we also think that other ideas should be welcome at the table because let's take Alzheimer's, for example, billions and billions of dollars have gone into developing therapeutics and we still don't have something that is truly effective, affordable, safe, accessible to most patients.