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Medical Services

Specialties

Programs & Services

Education

Graduate School

Carlos Albizu University

2008, Miami, FL

Internship

Miami Children's Hospital

2008, Miami, FL

Fellowship

Yale University School of Medicine

2010, New Haven, CT

Professional History

Dr. Vega is a clinician and researcher mainly in the area of pediatric epilepsy, specifically studying the cognitive, behavioral and affective comorbidities in epilepsy syndromes, as well as outcomes of neurosurgery for treatment of refractory epilepsy. As a bilingual Spanish-English practitioner from Cuban immigrant parents, Dr. Vega’s areas of interest also include research and provision of services with ethnic minority populations in the U.S. and abroad, as well as patient advocacy for underserved populations as a member of several national organizations. He lectures on topics such as brain development, neuropsychology of pediatric epilepsy, and assessment of bilingual children.

Publications

  1. Prevalence of suicidality in children and adolescents with depressive disorders with and without epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2023 Nov; 148:109467. View Abstract

  2. Culturally Informed Neuropsychological Evaluations in Pediatric Epilepsy: Evidence-Based Practice Considerations. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2023 Apr 26; 38(3):395-407. View Abstract

  3. Long-term neuropsychological outcomes in children with febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) treated with anakinra. Front Neurol. 2023; 14:1100551. View Abstract

  4. Discrepant expressive language lateralization in children and adolescents with epilepsy. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2022 09; 9(9):1459-1464. View Abstract

  5. Response to clobazam in continuous spike-wave during sleep. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2018 03; 60(3):283-289. View Abstract

  6. Lexical retrieval pre- and posttemporal lobe epilepsy surgery in a pediatric sample. Epilepsy Behav. 2015 Jan; 42:61-5. View Abstract

  7. Passive fMRI mapping of language function for pediatric epilepsy surgical planning: validation using Wada, ECS, and FMAER. Epilepsy Res. 2014 Dec; 108(10):1874-88. View Abstract

  8. Brain functional networks in syndromic and non-syndromic autism: a graph theoretical study of EEG connectivity. BMC Med. 2013 Feb 27; 11:54. View Abstract

  9. Symptoms of anxiety and depression in childhood absence epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2011 Aug; 52(8):e70-4. View Abstract

  10. Impaired attention and network connectivity in childhood absence epilepsy. Neuroimage. 2011 Jun 15; 56(4):2209-17. View Abstract

  11. Errors on the WCST correlate with language proficiency scores in Spanish-English bilingual children. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2011 Mar; 26(2):158-64. View Abstract

  12. Differentiation of attention-related problems in childhood absence epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2010 Sep; 19(1):82-5. View Abstract

  13. Dynamic time course of typical childhood absence seizures: EEG, behavior, and functional magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurosci. 2010 Apr 28; 30(17):5884-93. View Abstract
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