And why many doctors do not realise it
Such efforts are starting from a low base. In a 2020 survey fors had not suggested the diagnosis, suggesting awareness is low. Things were only a little better among specialists. Around half of paediatricians said they had never heard of the disease. Nearly one in five of the parents surveyed said their paediatrician felt that the diagnosis was controversial.are presented with an alphabet soup of psychiatric misdiagnoses.
has spoken to parents who say their children have been committed to mental-health services against their will, or removed from their care altogether. According to testimony provided in Parliament, one doctor told a child that he would not treat “an American illness”. In 2019 several dozen children withwere discharged from a British hospital.
Exactly why the diagnosis is controversial remains unclear. After all, the idea that the aftermath of an infection can cause psychiatric symptoms is not new. Sydenham’s chorea, in which patients suffer from jerky movements of the face and body, is the result of a streptococcal infection.contacted a number of psychiatrists and professional bodies for comment. Some did not reply. Others said they were unable to comment.
In 2018 Christopher Pittenger, a psychiatrist at Yale University, and his colleagues extracted antibodies from the blood of children withand introduced them to mice. They found that the antibodies attacked cholinergic interneurons, a group of cells in parts of the brain associated with tic disorders, one of the features of.
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