Steven G. Pavlakis, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained Pediatric Neurologist. He specializes in the neurologic care of infants, children and adolescents. His clinical focus is in general pediatric neurology, stroke care and neurogenetic disorders. He provides nonsurgical services for a broad range of conditions including seizures, headaches, developmental disorders and rare diseases.
Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Campus
Internship: Brown University
Pediatrics - American Board of Pediatrics
Neurodevelopmental Disabilities - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
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Kids that have high blood pressure probably do have changes in the brain, mild ones, but it does seem to affect learning and cognitive function. So the treatment of high blood pressure in kids becomes...
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Probably the most common patients that we see are children who have developmental delays or impairments. So if a child is late in walking and talking, they may come to us for a diagnosis or...
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Another disease that’s on the press a lot is something called spinal muscular atrophy. And spinal muscular atrophy, the most common form starts off in babies. And these babies are fine when they’re born, but...
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The things that are happening in neurology and in pediatric neurology have been profound and almost like science fiction. These are things that we never could have imagined doing certainly 40 years ago, not even...
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We have certain expertise. And I think these include epilepsy. We have a very, very active epilepsy monitoring unit in pediatrics and have three pediatric epileptologists working at it and seeing patients. So this is...
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In addition to that, there’s a whole bunch of different disorders that affect muscle and nerve. And probably the most common one that people know about is Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which is a disorder that...
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We do take care of more serious conditions, such as children with brain tumors. But again, that’s not the common presentation that we see from the community. In fact, that’s relatively rare, but we’ll see...
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Other common conditions include seizures, which you’re going to hear about from one of our epileptologists, but we see lots of kids that have seizures. And seizures can occur at any age in children. In...
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Other diagnoses that are common in child neurology are the things that are common in everybody in neurology. One is headaches. We see tons of children with headaches, especially adolescents. Most, I think in the...
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There is a multitude of genetic disorders that affect the brain and development. And we try to diagnose those children when they come to us and they usually come to us because of developmental problems....
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