Serotonin: A Gut Feeling It’s More Than a Neurotransmitter

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If you’re struggling with Long COVID, POTS, ME/CFS, or any lingering post-viral illness, you’ve probably felt like your body has been hijacked due to extreme exhaustion, brain fog, and strangely “off” in ways doctors sometimes struggle to explain. Could a hidden piece of the puzzle be something as fundamental as serotonin? Not the serotonin in […]

Long COVID Research Updates and Hispanic Community Impact

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This Brain Inflammation Collaborative webinar featured Dr. Hector Bonilla discussing research perspectives on Long COVID and Kelsey Aguirre presenting the Spanish-language version of our patient platform, unhide (www.unhidenow.org). Dr. Bonilla provided an overview of Long COVID, explaining its global impact, pathobiological mechanisms, including viral persistence and immune dysregulation. He detailed the clinical spectrum from acute […]

Living Within The Energy Envelope: Research Updates & Interventions for People with ME/CFS

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This Brain Inflammation Collaborative webinar featured Dr. Leonard Jason, a renowned ME-CFS researcher and patient, presenting on pacing as an intervention for managing post-exertional malaise (PEM). Dr. Jason shared his pioneering research from the 1990s on the energy envelope theory. He presented multiple studies showing the effectiveness of pacing interventions, including case studies, as well […]

Drug Repurposing in PANS: Improving Access to Innovative Treatment Options

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This webinar focused on drug repurposing in PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) and the importance of collecting patient data through the Brain Inflammation Collaborative platform, unhideⓇ. https://youtu.be/K79ntgFMpCU Our Featured Speakers Dr. Jenny Frankovich from Stanford University presented research on the involvement of the basal ganglia, thalamus, and amygdala in PANS patients, along with evidence of blood-brain […]

Advancing Understanding of PANS and PANDAS Through Research

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What Is PANDAS/PANS? PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) and PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections) are complex conditions in children that can appear very suddenly, often after an infection. Both PANS and PANDAS are defined by obsessive-compulsive symptoms, as well as anxiety, changes in eating, and other neuropsychiatric and physical symptoms. The […]

Insights into Mood and Mind in Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions

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This webinar will explore mood and behavior across multiple infection-associated chronic conditions. The Brain Inflammation Collaborative has developed a survey on our online health platform, the unhide Platform, that uniquely compares symptoms commonly reported by patients with illnesses such as PANS, Long COVID, ME/CFS, and/or Chronic Lyme disease. This is significant because mood symptoms in […]

Take the Mood and Behavior Questionnaire: Your Neuroimmune Experience Matters

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The Mood and Behavior Questionnaire is now live on The unhide® Solve Together Unified Platform! Your lived experience matters, and we’d love to learn from you! The Mood and Behavior Questionnaire (MBQ) is a new research tool created to help us better understand the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral experiences of people experiencing neuroimmune conditions. Many […]

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