The programme for the 2026 Mini-Symposium covered a range of topics including: TAND mechanisms, TAND measurement and ethical challenges in TSC care; the impact of TAND on family life and caregiver experiences, including sleep management difficulties, psychosocial aspects in Brazil, and the TSC and TAND landscape in India; and, potential TAND interventions, including medicinal cannabis, supporting caregiver wellbeing, regulating together, and a novel neuropsychological intervention.

The launch of the TAND Toolkit App took place on World Rare Disease Day, 28 February 2026. Watch this recording to hear more about the TANDem-2 project and how to register and use the app to track TAND over time!

In this short video aimed at families, Anna Jansen and Petrus de Vries talk through the consensus recommendations presented in the 2-page summary document.

An update on the TANDem-1 and TANDem-2 projects by Anna Jansen and Petrus de Vries.

Our 2023 TAND Mini-Symposium was a great success. You can listen here to presentations on pre-clinical TAND studies, TAND across the lifespan, understanding aspects of TAND, and TAND intervention and services research.

Petrus de Vries and Anna Jansen give a summary of the TANDem project at the in-person meeting in South Africa in November 2022.

Members of the TAND consortium give presentations on various aspects of TAND at the TANDem Impact Event in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in November 2022.

Liesbeth De Waele presents an update of year 2 of the TANDem project at the virtual International TSC Research Conference on 19 July 2021.

The TANDem project

Petrus de Vries gives an introduction to TAND at the Belfast TAND conference, 25 January 2019.

Petrus de Vries discusses the treatment of TAND at the Belfast TAND conference, 25 January 2019.

TAND: setting the scene

Introduction to TAND and the TAND Checklist

A talk presented by Prof. Petrus de Vries on ‘The Neuropsychiatry of TSC’ at the Australasian TSC Association family conference in Perth, Australia in 2013.