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Pediatric Neuroimmunology Update: Pick Up on Common Disorders & Optimize Outcomes
While seen as an adult disease, multiple sclerosis presents before age 18 in up to 10% of patients. Fortunately, prompt identification combined with newer therapies can lessen damage and protect future well-being.
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Costs and Complications of Pediatric Stroke: Why Early Identification and Intervention Are Priceless
In the U.S., about 3,000 children have a stroke each year. Yet, as pediatric neurologist Christine Fox, MD, MAS, notes, most parents don’t know that kids can have strokes, and more crucially, many pediatric providers are slow to consider stroke as a possible cause of certain symptoms.
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Neurofibromatosis and Schwannomatosis: Identifying Patients and Optimizing Care at Every Age
Neuro-oncologist Brian S. Na, MD, PhD, is dedicated to improving quality of life for patients with NF1 and NF2-related schwannomatosis, complex genetic conditions that vary widely in severity and symptoms.
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When Meds Fail: Latest and Best Options for Kids With Epilepsy
Despite numerous new drugs developed over the last 30 years, medications alone aren’t enough to control seizures in one-third of patients with epilepsy.
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Differentiating Pediatric Movement Disorders: When to Reassure, When to Refer
Pediatric neurologist Mary Jeno, MD, starts by laying out useful parameters for navigating the nuances of odd motions – from eye fluttering to shuddering to hip thrusting – that worried parents report seeing in their babies, young children and teenagers.
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Child & Adolescent Headache Program
The Child & Adolescent Headache Program is a specialty clinic within the Department of Neurology. Our focus is the treatment of patients with difficult to manage headache syndromes.
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“My Head Hurts”: Secrets to Handling Headaches in Primary Care
This is a practical guide to arriving at the correct diagnosis – primary condition? tension or migraine? – and savvy use of the numerous medications and other tools available to address frequent or severe headaches in the young.
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Pediatric Brain Tumor Brochure
The Pediatric Brain Tumor Program is one of the longest-standing programs on the West Coast dedicated to taking care of children with brain tumors.
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Minimally Invasive Technique Eradicates Recurring Pituitary Abscess
In this intraoperative video, watch UCSF neurosurgeons Ezequiel Goldschmidt, MD, PhD, and Peter Sun, MD with Patricia Loftus, MD, from the Otolaryngology Department surgically evacuate a sellar abscess of the pituitary gland in a pediatric patient.
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Sorting Out Seizures: An Expert’s Update for Pediatricians
In this fast-paced guide, pediatric neurologist Jennifer Yuen, DO, makes sense of the many seizure types and epilepsy syndromes, so that primary care providers can efficiently reach a likely diagnosis and determine which patients need a workup...
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First-Ever US FDA Approved Treatment for Rett Syndrome
An interview with Jennifer Martelle Tu, MD, PhD, Director of Katie’s Clinic for Rett Syndrome at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
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Hydrocephalus: The Workhorse Shunt
UCSF's chief of pediatric neurosurgery, Nalin Gupta, MD, PhD, gives a quick lesson in the structure and function of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt, illuminating its many benefits.
