Neurology & Epilepsy Research
Major areas of our division's scientific focus are listed below. Learn more on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago page for Pediatric Neurology Research.
Search our listing of current clinical trials and review our recent publications for more information.
- Precision medicine in epilepsy targeting infant onset epilepsies; specifically, the genetic channelopathies investigators include:
- Anne Berg, PhD (natural history and outcomes of early life epilepsies)
- Linda Laux, MD (Dravet syndrome; SCN1A)
- John Millichap, MD (infantile spasms, KCNQ2)
- Tracey Gertler, MD, PhD (KCNT1 potassium channel dysfunction in infant epileptic encephalopathies)
- Acute brain injury:
- Andrea Pardo, MD (white matter injury in neonates)
- Jon Kurz, MD, PhD (the role of hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels in depression after acute brain injury)
- Clinical trials in children with neuromuscular disorders, including spinal muscular atrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and myotubular myopathy:
- The role of Human Herpesvirus 6 in febrile status epilepticus: