Child Neurology Research

Child doing the puzzle

The Department of Neurology Division of Child Neurology at Columbia University was the first program of its kind in the nation. This long history of innovation and leadership in the field extends to our robust research program, which is among the finest in the nation. Across a broad array of child neurology subspecialties, many of our pediatric neurologists conduct clinical research, while also working in collaboration with our laboratory-based scientists and translational investigators, to hasten important discoveries aimed at improving the health, treatment, and wellbeing of children suffering with neurological illnesses.

Areas of Research

  • Childhood-onset epilepsy
  • Developmental neurophysiology
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • Epilepsy and cognitive disorders
  • Genetically-determined metabolic diseases that affect the developing brain and neuromuscular system
  • Glut1 deficiency
  • Mitochondrial diseases
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and other neuromuscular diseases
  • Cognitive and behavioral problems associated with epilepsy
  • Imaging modalities used for epilepsy diagnosis
  • Neurological, behavioral, and psychological outcomes in children with intrauterine exposure to cocaine
  • Neuro-developmental outcomes of brain injuries associated with prematurity
  • Inherited and acquired metabolic diseases that affect the developing nervous system and muscular system
  • Research focuses on defects of oxidative metabolism and the molecular basis of glucose transporter deficiency syndromes
  • Mitochondrial encephalopathy
  • Lactic acidosis
  • Stroke-like episodes (MELAS)
  • Aystemic lupus erythematosus
  • Imaging of the hippocampus and amygdala

Faculty