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Pediatric Neurology
Neurologists at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center are highly trained experts who have changed the way the specialty is practiced worldwide. This group of specialists has been building an exemplary reputation for decades, which is why today’s team is regarded as being a leader in the field.
Some Hopkins Children’s Center neurologists are devoting their careers to more manageable therapies to alleviate debilitating seizures in children. We have made great strides in the field with our research on the ketogenic diet. The high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet has been managed through the pediatric epilepsy team at Johns Hopkins since its beginnings in the 1920s. We are the premiere center in the world for clinical and research expertise on the ketogenic diet, having enrolled over 700 children over the past few decades on the ketogenic diet and 100 on the modified Atkins diet. One procedure in particular that has garnered attention for our neurologists and their surgical counterparts in the Division of Neurosurgery is the hemispherectomy. It’s a drastic surgery involving the removal of as much as half the brain to alleviate severe seizures. Johns Hopkins surgeon Walter Dandy pioneered the procedure in humans in 1923. Even today, although Johns Hopkins Children’s Center neurosurgeons and neurologists plan and perform at least one hemispherectomy a month, the overwhelming success of our patients continues to fascinate experts in the field, as well as the public. Our neurologists consider this to be a drastic measure only for patients who resist all other therapies and medications.
Johns Hopkins pediatric neurologists offer evidence-based treatments for a range of neurologic conditions in children, including headache, seizure and neuromuscular disorders, and stroke.We work with patients and their families to educate them about their neurological disorder and provide them with ongoing care and support.
Clinical Expertise
- Ataxia-telangiectasia
- Brachial plexus injuries
- Cerebrovascular disorders
- Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- Headache
- Ketogenic diet
- Movement disorders
- Neonatal neurology
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neuroimmunology
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Neuro-oncology
- Seizures
- Spina bifida
- Stroke
Related Information
- Johns Hopkins Medicine Division of Pediatric Neurology and Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Johns Hopkins Pediatric Interventional Neuroradiology
- Johns Hopkins Headache Center
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