Neurology at Boston Children's Hospital
Neurology
Dr. Phillip L. Pearl, MD
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Phillip Pearl practices Neurology. He graduated from University of Maryland School of Medicine. University of Maryland School of Medicine is ranked 37 in research and 52 in primary care medicine He received 4 awards: "Top Doctors:Washington DC Area", "Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore", "Super Doctor" and "Top MD". Dr. Phillip L. Pearl is a published doctor and has 95 publications published. The lastest was: 'Pregnancy outcome in patients treated for Hodgkin's disease.'
Publications
- Utility of initial EEG in first complex febrile seizure.
- Neuroimaging features of Cornelia de Lange syndrome.
- Inherited disorders of gamma-aminobutyric acid metabolism and advances in ALDH5A1 mutation identification.
- Disorders of GABA metabolism: SSADH and GABA-transaminase deficiencies.
- Widening Phenotypic Spectrum of AADC Deficiency, a Disorder of Dopamine and Serotonin Synthesis.
- Phenotypic Analysis of Epilepsy in the Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Strokelike Episodes-Associated Mitochondrial DNA A3243G Mutation.
- International Telemedicine Consultations for Neurodevelopmental Disabilities.
- Taurine trial in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency and elevated CNS GABA.
- Characteristic brain magnetic resonance imaging pattern in patients with macrocephaly and PTEN mutations.
- Quantitation of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid in dried blood spots: feasibility assessment for newborn screening of succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency.
- Response to Stove and colleagues concerning newborn screening of succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency in dried blood spots.
- Results of phase II levetiracetam trial following acute head injury in children at risk for posttraumatic epilepsy.
- Practice patterns of mitochondrial disease physicians in North America. Part 1: Diagnostic and clinical challenges.
- Thirty years beyond discovery-Clinical trials in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency, a disorder of GABA metabolism.
- Psychiatric symptoms in children prior to epilepsy surgery differ according to suspected seizure focus.
- Partial Pyridoxine Responsiveness in PNPO Deficiency.
- Monoamine neurotransmitter deficiencies.
- Support for the association between the rare functional variant I425V of the serotonin transporter gene and susceptibility to obsessive compulsive disorder.
- Epithelioid granulomas revisited: long-term follow-up in Hodgkin's disease.
- Dementia, rigidity and seizures in an adolescent boy.
- Tamoxifen withdrawal response. Report of a case.
- Small bowel obstruction as a late complication of the treatment of Hodgkin''s disease.
- Pregnancy outcome in patients treated for Hodgkin's disease.
- Ethiodized oil emulsion 13 in computed tomography of hepatoma.
- Acute renal failure, hemolytic anemia, and thrombocytopenia in poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis.
- Childhood stroke following intraoral trauma.
- Neuropathology of two fatal cases of measles in the 1988-1989 Houston epidemic.
- Methylphenidate HCl: therapy for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
- Pediatric sleep disorders.
- Seizures and metabolic disease.
- Imaging data in autism: from structure to malfunction.
- fMRI language task panel improves determination of language dominance.
- 22q13 deletion syndrome with central diabetes insipidus: a previously unreported association.
- Photosensitive absence epilepsy with myoclonias and heterozygosity for succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency.
- Monitoring gamma-hydroxybutyric acid levels in succinate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.
- Clinical aspects of the disorders of GABA metabolism in children.
- Pediatric neurotransmitter diseases.
- A dose-response study of OROS methylphenidate in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
- Sleep problems, stimulants, and ADHD: true, true, unrelated?
- Sawtooth wave density analysis during REM sleep in normal volunteers.
- Significant behavioral disturbances in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency (gamma-hydroxybutyric aciduria).
- Murine succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.
- Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency in children and adults.
- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of neurotransmitters in human brain.
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome.
- Clinical spectrum of succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.
- Too much energy for rest. Sleep problems in children with ADHD.
- The neurobiology of autism: new pieces of the puzzle.
- Language dominance in partial epilepsy patients identified with an fMRI reading task.
- Can stimulant rebound mimic pediatric bipolar disorder?
- Children, sleep, and behavior: a complex association.
- Childhood sleep disorders: diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
- Low incidence of abnormal (18)FDG-PET in children with new-onset partial epilepsy: a prospective study.
- Medical mimics. Medical and neurological conditions simulating ADHD.
- Neurologic course of congenital disorders of glycosylation.
- Stroke after zoster ophthalmicus in a 12-year-old girl with protein C deficiency.
- Herbs in epilepsy: evidence for efficacy, toxicity, and interactions.
- Epilepsy in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency, a disorder of GABA metabolism.
- Assessment of genetics knowledge and skills in medical students: insight for a clinical neurogenetics curriculum.
- Novel SCN1A mutation in a proband with malignant migrating partial seizures of infancy.
- Center for Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine: an innovative administrative structure and possible paradigm for the future.
- Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase: biochemical-molecular-clinical disease mechanisms, redox regulation, and functional significance.
- Uveitis and white matter abnormalities in pediatric sarcoidosis.
- Cerebellar atrophy in human and murine succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.
- Neuropathology in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.
- Polysomnographic abnormalities in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency.
- Decreased GABA-A binding on FMZ-PET in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.
- Neurological problems of jazz legends.
- Interhemispheric and intrahemispheric language reorganization in complex partial epilepsy.
- Teaching Video NeuroImages: preserved awareness in a frontal seizure with bilateral motor involvement: a psychogenic mimic.
- New treatment paradigms in neonatal metabolic epilepsies.
- Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency: lessons from mice and men.
- Pyridoxal phosphate dependency, a newly recognized treatable catastrophic epileptic encephalopathy.
- Limitations to plasticity of language network reorganization in localization related epilepsy.
- Cerebral MRI abnormalities associated with vigabatrin therapy.
- A 2-year-old male with developmental delay, irritability, and failure to thrive.
- Neuropsychiatric morbidity in adolescent and adult succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency patients.
- Infantile seizures: infants are not just little children.
- Parenting stress and childhood epilepsy: the impact of depression, learning, and seizure-related factors.
- Ketogenic diet: stoking energy stores and still posing questions.
- Misidentification of vagus nerve stimulator for intravenous access and other major adverse events.
- Atypical language in lesional and nonlesional complex partial epilepsy.
- The pediatric neurotransmitter disorders.
- Therapeutic concepts in succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH; ALDH5a1) deficiency (gamma-hydroxybutyric aciduria). Hypotheses evolved from 25 years of patient e...
- Prognosis of children with partial epilepsy: MRI and serial 18FDG-PET.
- The benefits of a camp designed for children with epilepsy: evaluating adaptive behaviors over 3 years.
- Diagnosis and treatment of neurotransmitter disorders.
- Clinical experience with anticonvulsant medication in pediatric epilepsy and comorbid bipolar spectrum disorder.
- Addendum to assessment: prevention of post-lumbar puncture headaches: report of the TTAS of the AAN.
- Expression profiling reveals multiple myelin alterations in murine succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency.
- Seizure focus affects regional language networks assessed by fMRI.
- Inherited disorders of neurotransmitters in children and adults.
- Murine succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency, a heritable disorder of GABA metabolism with epileptic phenotype.
- Use of complementary and alternative therapies in epilepsy: cause for concern.
Schools
University Of Maryland School Of Medicine
Baylor College Of Medicine
Procedures Preformed
- EEG (Electroencephalogram)
Doctors Specialties
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
- Neurology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top Doctors:Washington DC Area
- Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
Education
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Baylor College of Medicine -
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Hospital
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South Shore Hospital -
Children's National Medical Center -
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
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