Vitamin B6-Dependent Epilepsy & Other Metabolic Epilepsies! - Dr. Phillip Pearl, Boston Children’s Hospital, MA, USA
Can a vitamin stop seizures?! Vitamin B6-dependent epilepsy is a rare but powerful example of how identifying a cause has the potential to make an epilepsy treatable! Dr Phillip Pearl explains this condition and explores wider advances in metabolic epilepsies, from genetics to diets to gene therapy! Transcription and links are below! 👇🏻
Reported by Torie Robinson | Edited and produced by Carrot Cruncher Media.
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Phillip L. Pearl, M.D. is Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. His major research interest is inherited metabolic epilepsies. Dr. Pearl has published over 275 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 160 chapters/reviews, and written or edited eight books, one of which is translated into Chinese and one into Japanese. Dr. Pearl a member of the Music and Health Institute at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and is Past President of the Professors of Child Neurology and the Child Neurology Society. He is currently on the Board of the International Child Neurology Association.
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