PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY RESEARCH
 Colleen Giblin Laboratories
Pediatric Spinal Muscular Atrophy Clinic Research Center
Columbia Child Neurology
Claudia Chiriboga
Interim Division Head
Studies of neurological, behavioral, and psychological outcomes in children with intrauterine exposure to cocaine. Neuro-developmental outcomes of brain injuries associated with prematurity.
Darryl C. De Vivo
Director, Colleen Giblin Research Laboratories
Biochemical and molecular studies of inherited and acquired metabolic diseases that affect the developing nervous system and muscular system. Research focuses on defects of oxidative metabolism and the molecular basis of glucose transporter deficiency syndromes.
Jason Carmel
Recovery of motor function after injury using activity-based treatments, especially electrical stimulation. After developmental or traumatic injury we stimulate the corticospinal tract and investigate the effects on axon outgrowth, synapse formation, and behavioral recovery. Our current studies use cellular and morphological methods in the rat.
Ronald Emerson, Joshua Cappell
Translational epilepsy & electrophysiology research & neuroinformatics: Role of neuronal networks in epilepsy; Human neuronal ensemble recording related to epilepsy and behavior; physiologic basis of electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography(MEG); Electrophysiology related to developmental disability & autism in Tuberous Sclerosis (TS). Pathophysiology of seizures in TS, West Syndrome and Rolandic Epilepsy
Cigdem Akman
Pediatric epilepsy; epilepsy surgery in children; utility of ictal SPECT and interictal PET scans in evaluating children for epilepsy surgery; malformations of cortical development and intractable epilepsy; age dependent epileptic syndromes of childhood.
Geoffrey L. Heyer
Studies of linkage and association in diseases that exhibit complex genetic inheritance (specifically the idiopathic generalized epilepsies), risk factors associated with vasculopathy and stroke in the neurocutaneous disorder PHACE, pediatric applications for transcranial doppler, collaboration with the International Pediatric Stroke Study.
Arthur Mandel
Functional imaging studies of metabolic disease, including
mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like
episodes (MELAS) and systemic lupus erythematosus; imaging of the
hippocampus and amygdala.
Marc C. Patterson
Pathophysiology of Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C. Therapeutic trials of Coenzyme Q10, and glucosylceramide synthase inhibition in Niemann-Pick, Type C. Diagnosis and management of congenital disorders of glycosylation. Studies of the neurobiological basis of autistic spectrum dissorders.
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