Neurology Research
The Department of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital has a long history of innovation and discovery dating back to landmark discoveries about the mechanisms of cerebral palsy and the harmful effects of lead paint on growing children. Our clinical research focus comes from high-quality, high-impact basic neurodevelopmental research being conducted in our laboratories. We link those basic discoveries to mechanisms of disease to develop targeted therapies that treat the basis of neurodevelopmental disorders, not just the symptoms. The scope of our research currently extends to the following areas:
- autism spectrum disorder
- brain injury and regeneration
- brain and other nervous system tumors
- epilepsy
- fetal and neonatal disorders
- headache
- multiple sclerosis and neuroinflammatory disorders
- neuromuscular disease and spinal muscular atrophy
- disorders of sleep
- stroke and cerebrovascular disorders
- Other developmental disorders including Rett syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, neurofibromatosis
| RESEARCHER | FOCUS AREA |
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| Irina Anselm, MD | Mitochondrial Disorders and Neurometabolic Disorders |
| Todd E. Anthony, PhD | Genetic dissection of neural circuits that control stress-induced behavioral states |
| Elizabeth Barkoudah, MD | Cerebral Palsy |
| Nicole Baumer, MD | Down syndrome |
| David Bellinger, PhD | Neuroepidemiology |
| Leslie Benson, MD | Multiple Sclerosis & NeuroImmunology |
| Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD | Synaptic Plasticity |
| Alexander Cohen, MD, PhD | Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental Disabilities |
| Michael Crickmore, PhD | Neurobiology of motivational states |
| Basil Darras, M.D. | Neuromuscular Disorders |
| Michael Do, PhD | Regulation of Physiology and Behavior by Light |
| Elizabeth Engle, MD | Congenital Eye Movement Disorders |
| Michela Fagiolini, PhD | Experience-dependent Visual Plasticity, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, including Rett Syndrome |
| Mark Gorman, MD | Multiple Sclerosis & NeuroImmunology |
| Zhigang He, PhD | Axon Regeneration |
| Xi He, PhD | Cell-cell communication, Early Nervous System Development, Wnt Family of Secreted Morphogens and Signaling, Cancer, Skeletal and Neurologic Diseases |
| Karameh Hawash-Kuemmerle M.D. | Brain Injury |
| Takao Hensch, PhD | Critical periods in brain development |
| Kerri LaRovere, MD | Critical Care Neurology |
| April Levin, MD | Autism |
| Alan Leviton, MD | Epidemiology of Brain Damage in Preterm Newborns |
| Tobias Loddenkemper, MD | Epilepsy Clinical Neurophysiology |
| Kiran Maski, MD | Sleep Disorders |
| Maitreyi Mazumdar, MD | Neuroepidemiology |
| Jeff Neil, MD | Neonatal Neurology |
| Heather Olson, MD | Epilepsy Genetics |
| Judith Owens, MD | Sleep Disorders |
| Archana Patel, MD | Global Health |
| Phillip Pearl, MD | Metabolic Epilepsy |
| Jurriaan Peters, MD | Epilepsy surgery, tuberous sclerosis, EEG, and neuroimaging |
| Anna Pinto, MD | Sturge-Weber Syndrome |
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Epilepsy Genetics |
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| Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD | Molecular and Cellular Biology of Brain Tumors |
| Michael Rivkin, MD | Cognitive Disorders and Brain Development |
| Caitlin Rollins, MD | Neurocardiology |
| Paul Rosenberg, MD, PhD | Physiology and pathology of glutamate transporters in the central nervous system; molecular mechanisms of brain injury; mechanisms of homeostatic sleep regulation |
| Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD | Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Traumatic Brain |
| Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD | Axon Development and Neurologic Disease |
| Arnold Sansevere, MD | Continuous EEG monitoring in the Pediatric and Neonatal ICU |
| Thomas Schwarz, PhD | Neurotransmitter Secretion, Membrane Trafficking, Synapse Development, Axonal Transport, Parkinson's Disease |
| Janet Soul, MD | Neonatal Neurology |
| Sarah Spence MD, PhD | Autism |
| Judith A. J. Steen, PhD | Neurodegenerative diseases, proteomics and bioinformatics |
| Beth Stevens, PhD | Neuron-glia Signaling, Synapse Development, and Plasticity |
| Robert Tasker, MD | Critical Care Neurology |
| Nicole J. Ullrich, MD, PhD | Neurologic Effects of Neurofibromatosis, Systemic Cancer and Brain Tumor Treatment in Children |
| Hisashi Umemori, MD, PhD | Wiring the Functional Brain |
| Clifford Woolf MB, BCh, PhD | Pain, Formation of Neural Circuits, Regeneration |
