Pans/Pandas is an acronym for Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections. There are other names for this condition including ‘basal ganglia encephalitis.’ The nomenclature can be confusing. But what you need to know is that they all mean one thing – infection driven-autoimmune brain inflammation. This is a very real physical condition which triggers a raft of physical and psychiatric symptoms. In the UK, this area of medicine has not kept pace with