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New Frontiers for Neurosciences Research (1/28/2020) - Jane and John Justin Neurosciences Center at Cook Children’s recently finalized a research relationship with the Department of Bioengineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. Funded by the Dodson Neuro Research Endowment, the Cook Children’s Neurosciences Research Center will add postdoctoral research fellows, Ph.D. students and interns to a growing team dedicated to neuroscience research. Through this collaboration, Cook Children’s will welcome investigators… … Continue reading New Frontiers for Neurosciences Research
Physiatry Addition to Cook Children’s Comprehensive Neurorehabilitation Program (6/18/2019) - Cook Children’s Neurosciences Center has long provided comprehensive rehabilitation services to children through our state-of-the-art Neurorehabilitation Unit, Motion Lab, and multispecialty clinics for cerebral palsy, spasticity, movement disorders, stroke, and neuromuscular disease. Starting August 2019, Cook Children’s Jane and John Justin Neurosciences Center will expand our neurorehabilitation services with the addition of Pediatric Physiatrist Kristen Taylor , D.O., Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), further bolstering… … Continue reading Physiatry Addition to Cook Children’s Comprehensive Neurorehabilitation Program
Comprehensive Surgical Evaluations for Epilepsy (3/26/2019) - Pediatric epilepsy specialists at Cook Children’s aim to efficiently complete complex surgical evaluations for patients and their families, allowing optimal treatment to begin quickly. Epilepsy syndromes in children differ greatly from those that manifest in adulthood. While adult-onset epilepsy often results from symptomatic causes (i.e., head injury or stroke), pediatric epilepsy can present as isolated seizures that may not recur, as part of a… … Continue reading Comprehensive Surgical Evaluations for Epilepsy
Novel Approach to Pediatric Pain Management (11/5/2018) - Chronic pain is one of the most common conditions encountered by health care professionals. This is particularly true among older (≥65 years) patients, but nearly 30% of children suffer from chronic pain as well. Unfortunately, only in the past 20 years has attention started to focus on this underrecognized pediatric population. Pain may stem from organic disease, such as cancer or from a process… … Continue reading Novel Approach to Pediatric Pain Management
New Gene Therapies for Neuromuscular Disease (10/26/2018) - Giving kids strength through precision medicine – new gene therapies for neuromuscular disease. Cook Children's Clinical Care Center designation from the Muscular Dystrophy Association reaffirms our commitment to excellence in clinical care for our patients with neuromuscular disorders, and represents the continuum of a more than 30-year relationship. This designation by MDA comes at a most exciting time in the treatment of children with… … Continue reading New Gene Therapies for Neuromuscular Disease
Improving Seizure-Free Outcomes (10/26/2018) - Improving seizure-free outcomes ... without spending a dime. What would you say if someone told you seizure-free outcomes following epilepsy surgery could be improved by almost 100 percent simply by downloading some free software? That is exactly what the Cook Children's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program team did when they instituted the use of multimodal coregistered imaging protocols in 2009. Their results are published in Epileptic… … Continue reading Improving Seizure-Free Outcomes
The Gift of Gait: Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (10/26/2018) - Selective dorsal rhizotomy improves ability to walk for children with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a motor disorder caused by a nonprogressive injury to the developing brain and commonly limits mobility. For children with cerebral palsy, the loss of mobility comes with multiple health and social issues, including social isolation due to the inability to keep up with peers, loss of independence and a… … Continue reading The Gift of Gait: Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy
Improving Diagnosis of Early-life Epilepsy (10/26/2018) - Over the last decade, genetic testing has become more common as part of the evaluation for pediatric epilepsy. Often, we turn to genetic testing in hopes of better understanding the cause of epilepsies, which have defied diagnosis after a thorough exam, EEG, imaging and laboratory tests. Understanding the genetic basis can impact treatment. As increasing genetic etiologies have been identified, particular targeted treatments may… … Continue reading Improving Diagnosis of Early-life Epilepsy
Dedicated Neuroscience ICU (10/24/2018) - The three primary diagnostic categories of patients discharged from Cook Children's Pediatric ICU (January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010) were: respiratory (892 patients/24.18% of total discharges), cardiovascular (758/20.55%) and neurologic (617/16.73%). In 2011, Cook Children's set out to develop its own Neuro Critical Care Program with a vision to improve patient care and outcomes through quality improvement, research collaboration and a family-centered multidisciplinary… … Continue reading Dedicated Neuroscience ICU
Collaborating to Improve Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery (10/24/2018) - Intractable epilepsy (failure to achieve seizure freedom after trials of two appropriate chosen and dosed antiepileptic drugs) has profound impact on quality of life, psychosocial function, cognitive function, and mortality risk1. For these patients, surgical therapy, consisting of localization and subsequent resection/ablation of the epileptogenic zone can result in favorable seizure reduction and for many, seizure freedom. Among patients with intractable epilepsy, an estimated… … Continue reading Collaborating to Improve Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery