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One Friday morning last fall, writer Jessica Slice’s eight-year-old daughter Rose woke up with a sore throat. At first, it felt like a minor cold, but over the next few days, she started to change. First, her arms and legs would suddenly and uncontrollably shoot out in front of her. Not long after, Rose said she felt like she was “vibrating inside.” Within a week, she began to wail for hours on end, threaten to harm herself and others, and displayed severe motor control problems.

But multiple doctors denied there was any medical issue, telling Slice to bring Rose to a psychiatrist instead. “I don’t know how long our pattern of ER visits and outpatient referrals might have continued had I not texted a group of friends that evening to share Rose’s story,” Slice writes. “One friend — a doctor — texted back an idea: “Have you looked into PANS?”

PANS, or “pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome,” is a form of brain inflammation caused by infection that affects an estimated one in around 12,000 children every year. A reliable test for the disease is still elusive, so diagnosis currently hinges on developing sudden-onset OCD or restrictive eating and at least two out of nine concurrent symptoms, which include aggression, motor abnormalities, and sleep changes. But there’s widespread medical skepticism surrounding the condition, and funding for research is sparse.

Splice writes about her fight to treat Rose and speaks to PANS patients and medical experts about their experience with the disease, the struggle to diagnose it, and the vocal community of physicians actively opposing the disease’s recognition: https://nymag.visitlink.me/5FU0Va

Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours, study finds A new mouse study led by UCLA Health suggests that inflammation during pregnancy can trigger autism-like changes in offspring, but also that those brain and behavior effects may be rapidly but temporarily reversible in adulthood with a short-term dose of the immunosuppressive drug rapamycin.

Following final zoning approval from the Scio Township Board of Trustees, the Many Hands Lifesharing Community will break ground later this month on a 94-acre neighborhood designed for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live alongside their caregivers in an inclusive, intergenerational community. The nonprofit says it will be the first lifesharing community of its kind in Michigan.

The development will include resident homes, workforce housing, a community center, café, biodynamic farm, recreational spaces and preserved farmland, creating a place where people of all abilities can live, work and build lasting relationships together. About 90% of the property will remain actively farmed or permanently preserved.

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Every newborn in the US has their hearing tested within days of birth. It’s routine. Most parents barely think about it.

Researchers at Michigan State University now believe that same test could contain early signals of autism — years before any diagnosis would currently be possible.

The test measures how the inner ear and brainstem respond to sound. Some autistic people process auditory information differently, and those differences may be detectable from birth. If the research holds, it could mean identifying autistic children at the earliest possible stage — giving families access to support from the very beginning.

The infrastructure is already there. The question is whether the data has been there all along.

SOURCE: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine