Email:

nschlenk@iu.edu

Departments:

Epidemiology

Degrees:

BS, Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, University of Kansas

MA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas

Selected Publications

1. Cunningham, J. L., Frankovich, J., Dubin, R. A., Pedrosa, E., Baykara, R. N., Schlenk, N. C., Maqbool, S. B., Dolstra, H., Marino, J., Edinger, J., Shea, J. M., Laje, G., Swagemakers, S. M. A., Sinnadurai, S., Zhang, Z. D., Lin, J., van der Spek, P. J., & Lachman, H. M. (2025). Ultrarare variants in DNA damage repair genes in pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome or acute behavioral regression in neurodevelopmental disorders. Developmental Neuroscience, 47(4), 231—250.
2. Kapphahn, C., Peet, B., Gao, J., Chan, A., Farhadian, B., Ma, M., Silverman, M., Tran, P., Schlenk, N., Thienemann, M., & Frankovich, J. (2025). Sudden onset disordered eating behaviors and appetite issues in a local clinical cohort of children with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). International Journal of Eating Disorders, 58(7), 1219—1232.
3. Masterson, E. E., Miles, K., Schlenk, N., Manko, C., Ma, M., Farhadian, B., Chang, K., Silverman, M., Thienemann, M., & Frankovich, J. (2025). Defining clinical course of patients evaluated for pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome: Phenotypic classification based on 10 years of clinical data. Developmental Neuroscience, 47(4), 270—286. 
4. Yin, X., Frankovich, J., Kalaycioglu, M., Choudhury, A., Burry Jr, M. J., Kwon, W. J., Ma, M., Farhadian, B., Manko, C., Silverman, M., Xie, Y., Tran, P., Schlenk, N., Utz, P. J., & Prestwood, T. R. (2026). Interferon-λ-neutralizing autoantibodies and common autoimmune disease autoantibodies in pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Frontiers in Immunology, 17, 1832833. 
5. Vreeland, A., Schlenk, N., Mendoza, E., Ma, M., Willett, T. A., & Frankovich, J. (2025). Inflammation and OCD: Sydenham chorea, PANS/PANDAS, and other inflammatory conditions relating to OCD and other psychiatric comorbidities. In A Clinician's Guide to Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (pp. 223—258).
6. Ma, M.*, Schlenk, N.*, Sandberg, J., Schaffer, Z., Miles, K., Manko, C., Farhadian, B., Azad, K., Capestany, C., Aeruva, A., Xie, Y., Tran, P., Silverman, M., Hoffman, K. W., Thienemann, M., Frankovich, J. (2026). Autoimmunity and Arthritis in Youth with Autism and Suspected Post-Infectious Deteriorations. [Pre-print]. medRxiv, 2026—03. 
7. Frankovich, J., Dubin, R. A., Natarajan, C., Schlenk, N., Pedrosa, E., Stolte, E., Rice, N., Soorajkumar, A., Vettiatil, D., van der Speck, P. J., Cunningham, J. L., Lachman, H. M. (2026). Ultrarare Variants in Genes Involved in Intestinal Microbiota and Permeability Homeostasis in Youth with Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Conditions. [Pre-print]. medRxiv, 2026—05.