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Pediatric Brain Center: Team Card
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals provide expert care for a wide range of neurological disorders.
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Pediatric Neurosurgery Access Center
The Pediatric Brain Center at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals delivers advanced neurosurgical care using kid-friendly approaches, the latest technology and innovative techniques.
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Tic Talk: Current Perspectives on Tourette's and Similar Disorders
Delivering useful definitions and classifications, pediatric neurologist Ana Grijalvo Perez, MD, discusses tic characteristics, scales to assess severity, what's known about genetic influences, and guidance on when and how to initiate care for children bothered by their own repetitive behaviors.
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Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injuries
Experts in sports medicine, pediatric neurology and pediatric surgery come together to deliver the information and guidance clinicians need to diagnose concussion in young patients, assess the severity of traumatic brain injuries, determine which children need imaging, and counsel families appropriately about workup options and recovery.
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Pediatric Brain Center Neurosurgery Team Card
The Pediatric Brain Center team are: Top-tier neurosurgeons who perform hundreds of surgeries annually, multidisciplinary team approach across pediatric specialties, kid-focused facilities and equipment tailored to fit smaller bodies and much more.
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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.
