The Rising Role of Integrative Medicine: Bridging Conventional and Holistic Care
Winter 2025 | CNS Connections magazine
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a wave of medical advice on social media, increasing health awareness but also causing confusion due to contradictory information and opinions. This constant supply of mixed...
Unravelling the Complexities of Neuroinflammatory Disorders
Summer 2024 | CNS Connections magazine
Autoimmune neuroinflammatory disorders are among the most dramatic and interesting diseases in child neurology. They can induce substantial neurological and psychiatric symptoms with a thunderclap onset, and they can lead...
Abnormal Movements in Autism: Association or Causality?
Winter 2024 | CNS Connections magazine
Dr. Rujuta Wilson, an Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatric Neurology at UCLA, is exploring abnormal movements in Autism. When people think of autism, they usually think only of...
A Marriage of Hematology and Neurology: Studying Sickle Cell Disease in the Pediatric Brain
Summer 2023 | CNS Connections magazine
As we all learned in medical school, sickle cell disease is an inherited hemoglobinopathy, caused by a single base pair mutation in the beta-globin gene. Although sickle cell disease was...
One More Problem with Childhood Obesity: Increased Risk of Bell Palsy
Winter 2023 | CNS Connections magazine
Association of overweight and obesity with Bell palsy in children. V. Breitling, A. Leha, S Schiller, et al. Pediatric Neurology 2023;139:43-48. What the researchers did: Childhood obesity is a substantial...