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What every psychiatrist should know about PANDAS: a review

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, January 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#41 of 217)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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1 blog
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1 tweeter
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1 Facebook page
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13 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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Title
What every psychiatrist should know about PANDAS: a review
Published in
Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, January 2008
DOI 10.1186/1745-0179-4-13
Pubmed ID
18495013
Authors

Germana Moretti, Massimo Pasquini, Gabriele Mandarelli, Lorenzo Tarsitani, Massimo Biondi

Abstract

The term Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus infections (PANDAS) was coined by Swedo et al. in 1998 to describe a subset of childhood obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) and tic disorders triggered by group-A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes infection. Like adult OCD, PANDAS is associated with basal ganglia dysfunction. Other putative pathogenetic mechanisms of PANDAS include molecular mimicry and autoimmune-mediated altered neuronal signaling, involving calcium-calmodulin dependent protein (CaM) kinase II activity. Nonetheless the contrasting results from numerous studies provide no consensus on whether PANDAS should be considered as a specific nosological entity or simply a useful research framework. Herein we discuss available data that could provide insight into pathophysiology of adult OCD, or might explain cases of treatment-resistance. We also review the latest research findings on diagnostic and treatment.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 3%
Germany 1 2%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Taiwan 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 55 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 16%
Student > Master 10 16%
Researcher 8 13%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Other 6 10%
Other 13 21%
Unknown 8 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 38%
Psychology 10 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 8%
Neuroscience 5 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 3%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 10 16%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 November 2022.
All research outputs
#2,726,830
of 23,164,913 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health
#41
of 217 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,305
of 157,555 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health
#2
of 14 outputs
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