Beautiful little boy on wheelchair smiling and looking with admiration at his unrecongizable physical therapist

As we prepare to launch the London PANS Clinic, I felt that it would be useful to reflect on the recent neuroimmune 2024 conference for parents of children with PANS PANDAS. The conference took place in Palo Alto, California (although it was virtual) and there were some significant updates with the standout presentations from Jenny […]

Whilst doing my ward round I came across a patient who was being attended to by one of the junior doctors, a 12 year old boy who had been admitted with “seizures”, a relatively common condition which most paediatric trainees should feel comfortable in managing. The patient, let’s call him Peter (not his name), had […]

For those of you who watched the 1990 film ‘Awakenings” starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, the concept of a patient being frozen in time only to awaken when given the correct medication will not be an unfamiliar one. This true story depicted patients who appeared to be in a frozen catatonic state for […]