Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep is a relatively new and contested diagnosis, believed to be caused by an infection or other trigger that causes the immune system to mistakenly attack the brain and swell it, resulting in extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder, cognitive regression, sleeplessness and other disabling behaviors.

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