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Families and clinicians press for state study of PANS/PANDAS prevalence in psychiatric settings
Summary
Dozens of parents, clinicians and young people testified that PANS/PANDAS — an autoimmune‑triggered neuropsychiatric syndrome — is often missed and that S.1415 should direct DMH and DESE to study prevalence among children in psychiatric hospitals and therapeutic day schools.
The committee heard extensive testimony on S.1415, a resolve directing the Department of Mental Health, with DESE support, to study and report on the prevalence of PANS/PANDAS among children served in psychiatric hospitals and therapeutic day schools.
Parents, clinicians, educators and people with lived experience described prolonged misdiagnosis, repeated hospitalizations, costly out‑of‑district placements and family trauma when medical causes to abrupt psychiatric…
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