Members of the Division of Neurology at Children's Mercy Hospital is involved in several research areas and have both active and pending studies covering a wide range of neurological and neuro-genetic syndromes.
- Evaluation of the ketogenic diet and quality of life in children's with intractable epilepsy.
- Increasing the use of Seaizure Action Plans in the Child Neurology Clinic.
- Levetiracetam Serum Concentration in children between 0 and 18 years of age treated for epilepsy: Correlation with clinical response and tolerability.
- Lacosamide : A Multicenter, Open-Label Study To Investigate The
Safety, Tolerability, And Pharmacokinetics Of Lacosamide (LCM) Oral Solution
(Syrup) As Adjunctive Therapy In Children With Partial-Onset Seizures.
Lacosamide: An Open-Label Study To Determine Safety,Tolerability, And Efficacy
Of Long-Term Oral Lacosamide (LCM) As Adjunctive Therapy In Children With
- Ketogenic Diet Success Predictors in Patients with Intractable Epilepsy.
- Intraoperative ECoG monitoring and seizure outcomes.
- Delivery of Antepileptic Medications to Patient's Bedside in the
Setting of Prolonged Epileptic Seizure with or without Status Epilepticus:
Retrospective Chart Review Protocol/Quaility Improvement.
- Treatment of headache with non-drug therapies to alleviate migraine headaches.
- CHAMP, The Childhood and Adolescent Migraine Prevention Study.
- Evaluation and treatment of children with possible brain damage or neurodevelopmental disorders due to excessive newborn jaundice, including kernicterus and BIN (bilirubin-induced brain disorders).
- Investigations of the role of bilirubin in neurological damage.
- Kernicterus, Jaundice, and Bilrubin Induced Neurological Disorders.
- Bind: Neonatal Bilirubin Induced Neurologic Dysfunction in Developing
- Movement Disorders
- Medtronic Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Therapy for Dystonia.
- Diagnostic Utilization of Microarray Comparative Genomic Hybridization
(aCGH) in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Biomarkers in the Immediate Postnatal Period of Development.