Dr. Lauren Breithaupt
MOORESVILLE, NC, UNITED STATES, December 31, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — PANDAS Physicians Network (PPN) is proud to award $50,000 to Dr. Lauren Breithaupt, Assistant Professor, Director Peripheral-brain Interactions Neuropsychiatry Center at Harvard Medical School, for her work in the development and evaluation of a clinical assessment of Pediatric Autoimmune and Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) and Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS).
Dr. Breithaupt’s work will fill a vital gap in the current diagnostic process by providing standard guidelines for assessing current PANS/PANDAS criteria and establishing the severity and clinical features of immune mediated neuroinflammatory brain disorders triggered by infections in both…