
Pediatric epilepsy
Directors:
Marcelo Lancman, MD, and Eric Segal, M.D.
Medical Staff:
Lorraine M. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D.
José Serruya, MD
Firas Taha, M.D.
Program Description:
• Our Pediatric Epilepsy Program specializes in evaluating and treating children with epilepsy. Our program is built on the understanding that a child with epilepsy and his or her family encounter special challenges that often require a team of professionals. Our team includes child neurologists with specialty training in epilepsy neurosurgeons, a psychiatrist, nurses, psychologists, neuropsychologists, and Epilepsy Free scholarships. Our Pediatric Epilepsy team works as a unit to simultaneously provide exceptional medical care, psychological support, educational assistance, and social and community activities.
• Specialty programs:
* Medical treatment programs
- Approved seizure medications
- Experimental seizures medications (not available on the market)
* Surgical treatment program
* Tuberous Sclerosis Specialty Center
* Dravet Syndrome Specialty Center
* Sturge-Weber Specialty Center
Our physicians' scientific publications:
- Diagnostic Yield of Epilepsy Panels in Children With Medication-Refractory Epilepsy
- Effect of treatment of obstructive sleep apnea on seizure outcomes in children with epilepsy
- Biomarkers aiding diagnosis of atypical presentation of pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy
- Chorea associated with antiphospholipid antibodies in a patient with Kabuki syndrome
- Seizures from valproate-carbapenem interaction
- Clinically significant bradyarrhythmias in video-EEG patients
- Lazar, L.M., Milrod, L.M., Solomon, G.E., Labar, D.R. Asynchronous pentobarbital-induced burst suppression with corpus callosum hemorrhage. Clin Neurophysiol 1999; 110(6): 1036-40.
- Harden, C.L., Lazar, L.M., Pick, L.H., Nikolov, B., Goldstein, M.A., Ravdin, L.D., Kocsis, J.H., Labar, D.R. A beneficial effect on mood in partial epilepsy patients treated with gabapentin. Epilepsia 1999; 40(8): 1129-34.
- Trifiletti, R.R., Lazar, L.M., Bojko, A., Chutorian, A.M., DiMauro, S. Early poliodystrophy with mitochondrial defect: two cases. Child Neurology Society Abstr 1996: 59. (Presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Child Neurology Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
- Lazar, L.M., Blum, M. Regional distribution and developmental expression of epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor-alpha mRNA in mouse brain by a quantitative nuclease protection assay. J Neurosci 1992; 12(5): 1688-1697.
- Lazar, L.M. Epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor-alpha gene expression in the normal and neurodegenerate murine central nervous system. Doctoral dissertation 1992; Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York.
- Lazar, L.M., Kelley, K.A., Blum, M. Epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor-alpha mRNA expression in Purkinje Cell Degeneration and weaver mutant mice. Soc Neurosci Abstr 1990; 16:999. (Presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, St. Louis, MO)
To make an appointment: (914) 428-9213 or 201-343-6676