{"id":18685,"date":"2025-01-18T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T20:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autism.org\/?p=18685"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:40:19","slug":"pans-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism.org\/pans-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Updates: At the Crossroads of Infection, Inflammation, and Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jennifer Frankovich, MD, MS<\/a>, dives into the intersection of infection, inflammation, and mental health. She discusses the increase in recognition of this critical overlap over the last decade, highlighting how systemic inflammatory conditions have the highest rate of co-occurring psychiatric disorders. The speaker outlines ten inflammatory diseases that frequently co-occur with mental health conditions, including spondyloarthritis, psoriasis\/psoriatic arthritis, Beh\u00e7et’s Syndrome, Sj\u00f6gren’s disease, Scleroderma, CNS Vasculitis, Sydenhams’ Chorea, and Lupus. Frankovich underscores the connection of Streptococcal infections to many of these inflammatory conditions, noting their similarities to PANS and challenges with diagnosis. She provides thanks and acknowledgments before the Q&A.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a follow-up to our June 12, 2024 webinar<\/a> featuring Dr. Jennifer Frankovich, Ayan Mondal, Ph.D., and Noor A. Hussein, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<\/div>