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Maternal history of autoimmune disease in children presenting with tics and/or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 15 Dec 2010
Murphy T K, Storch E A, Turner A, Reid J M, Tan J, Lewin A B
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OBJECTIVES: A commonality across a number of pediatric neuropsychiatric disorders is a higher than typical rate of familial - and especially maternal - autoimmune disease. Of recent interest, a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and tic disorders known collectively as Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS) is believed to be secondary to central nervous...
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