James D. Frost, Jr., M.D.
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- Discovery of an underlying cause for infantile spasm points to a novel therapy May 19, 2022
- Researchers connected altered IGF-1 levels to infantile spasm in patients and animal models.
- Vital links between brain tumors, epileptic seizures found Feb. 7, 2017
- Research suggests detecting brain tumors at the earliest possible stage and eliminating them before seizures begin might be possible one day.
- Throwback Thursday: The rest of the story Nov. 5, 2015
- Back in April of this year we featured this interesting picture and wondered what was going on. We wanted to know…
- Single gene mutation responsible for catastrophic epilepsy July 8, 2009
- The BCM Department of Neurology team replicated the defect in mice, developing a mouse model of the disease that could help researchers figure out effective treatments for and new approaches to curing the disease.
- Book Release – Infantile Spasms: Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis July 31, 2003
- The etiology of infantile spasms/West syndrome remains unknown; the pathophysiology is poorly understood and the optimal course of treatment is controversial.
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