Most Dravet syndrome patients utilize various types of therapies beyond medicines to manage the disease, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy,…
Lindsey Shapiro, PhD
Lindsey earned her PhD in neuroscience from Emory University in Atlanta, where she studied novel therapeutic strategies for treatment-resistant forms of epilepsy. She was awarded a fellowship from the American Epilepsy Society in 2019 for this research. Lindsey also previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher, studying the role of inflammation in epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Articles by Lindsey Shapiro, PhD
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Up to three years of treatment with Epidiolex in a clinical trial led to sustained reductions in seizure frequency…