Comments on: PANDAS article in the Christian Post https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/03/10/pandas-article-in-the-christian-post/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:56:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: carole https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/03/10/pandas-article-in-the-christian-post/#comment-26275 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:56:21 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3384#comment-26275 Forgot to give the link to the article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822092246.htm

]]> By: carole https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/03/10/pandas-article-in-the-christian-post/#comment-26274 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:35:14 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3384#comment-26274 Very interesting news today from the Stanford team leading the way in the fight to understand narcolepsy. They had already established that the disorder resulted from the autoimmune destruction of a small set of neurons that made hypocretin, a neurotransmitter, but now they seem to have zeroed in on what triggers it:

“Together with recent findings, these results strongly suggest that winter airway infections such as influenza A (including H1N1), and/or Streptococcus pyogenes are triggers for narcolepsy,” Mignot, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and his colleagues wrote in the paper.

Reminds me of PANDAS and strep.

]]> By: John Weaver https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/03/10/pandas-article-in-the-christian-post/#comment-26273 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:18:02 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3384#comment-26273 For certain cases of OCD yes. Not every case, or even most cases, are caused by strep, but some have been linked to it.
http://westsuffolkpsych.homestead.com/Pandas.html

]]> By: Drowssap https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/03/10/pandas-article-in-the-christian-post/#comment-26272 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:30:26 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3384#comment-26272 John Weaver
Is there evidence floating around that OCD may be caused by strep? I have no doubt it’s something like that but I didn’t know one way or the other if there was evidence yet.

]]> By: John Weaver https://wthrockmorton.com/2009/03/10/pandas-article-in-the-christian-post/#comment-26271 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:47:31 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=3384#comment-26271 Good article, Warren. Now if we could only persuade nouthetics supporters to admit that OCD may be caused by strep, then we’d be on to something!

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