Caregivers of children with Dravet syndrome in Sweden reported a number of factors, including fever, infections, physical activity,…
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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The prevalence of Dravet syndrome in Sweden was one in 45,000 at the end of 2018, with most identified…
Anticonvulsant therapies in the benzodiazepine class successfully suppressed nearly 62% of all episodes of status epilepticus in children with Dravet…
A type of brain nerve cells, called parvalbumin-expressing (PV) interneurons, was able to generate electrical signals in a mouse model…