The Pediatric Neurology faculty is actively involved in basic science and clinical research. Division staff members have presented their work at meetings of the Child Neurology Society, the American Epilepsy Society, and the International Child Neurology Association, often in collaboration with pediatric neurology resident or medical students.

Residents are strongly encouraged to participate in these important professional meetings, and if a scientific paper is accepted for presentation at one of these meetings, associated travel expenses are covered by the Pediatric Neurology Neuroeducational Fund.

The following is a selected list of research activities involving Pediatric Neurology Division faculty currently underway:

• Extremely low gestational age newborns (ELGAN) study (NIH): molecular antecedents of brain damage (Karl Kuban)

 • Calcium channel defect in infants with benign paroxysmal torticollis (Alpert Fund) (Laurie Douglass, N. Paul Rosman)

 • Further clinical analyses in 406 cases of febrile seizures followed prospectively (N. Paul Rosman)

• Epilepsy in children born extremely prematurely (Laurie Douglass, Karl Kuban)

• Controlled evaluation of ADHD in children with idiopathic epilepsy
(Laurie Douglass)

• Pharmacological clinical trials in childhood epilepsy: Levetiracetam (Keppra), Lamotrigine (Lamictal) (William  DeBassio, Laurie Douglass, Georgia Montouris)

• Causes and consequences of acquired microcephaly (N. Paul Rosman)