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Dr. Sameer Sheth Announced as Director of The Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories at Texas Children’s Hospital

11/29/2022

Dr. Sameer Sheth, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named the new Director of the Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories within the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital.

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An animal model of West syndrome exhibits a progressive increase in epileptic spasms and learning and memory deficits

11/02/2022

West syndrome, the most prevalent type of syndromic epileptic encephalopathy affecting infants, is a devastating and often fatal condition. It is characterized by a triad of symptoms – seizures/spasms, a signature brain activity between seizure events, and intellectual disabilities.

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A pioneering study discovers an underlying cause for infantile spasms and points to a novel therapy

05/11/2022

Infantile spasm (IS) is a severe epileptic syndrome of infancy and accounts for 50% of all epilepsy cases that occur in babies during the first year of life.

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Dr. Charles Chen selected for the 2022 Uplifting Athletes Young Investigator Draft Grant

01/18/2022

A researcher at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Dr. Wu Chen who is a postdoctoral fellow training under assistant professor, Dr.

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