The blood levels of Fintepla (fenfluramine) are mostly within the lower range among treated children and adults with…
Marta Figueiredo, PhD
Marta holds a biology degree, a master’s in evolutionary and developmental biology, and a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She was awarded a research scholarship and a PhD scholarship, and her research focused on the role of several signaling pathways in thymus and parathyroid glands embryonic development. She also previously worked as an assistant professor of an annual one-week embryology course at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine.
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Articles by Marta Figueiredo, PhD
Treatment with low-dose aripiprazole — a newer class of antipsychotic medication — in combination with psychotherapy, and behavioral and occupational…
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Nearly one month of repeated dosing of BMB-101, Bright Minds Biosciences’ experimental oral therapy for Dravet syndrome, was…
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A no-cost genetic screening program, sponsored by Stoke Therapeutics, helped speed up molecular diagnosis of SCN1A-related diseases, including Dravet…
The first wave of COVID-19Â in Europe severely disrupted access to care and raised stress and anxiety in people with…
The investigational oral therapy Soticlestat (OV935/TAK-935), developed by Ovid Therapeutics and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, safely and effectively lowers…
Epilepsy surgery may be ineffective, and even detrimental, in people with Dravet syndrome caused by mutations in the…