Pediatric Neurology
Pediatric Neurology Conditions We Treat
Rely on expert health care from University Children’s Health specialists for conditions that affect your child’s brain, spinal cord and nerve system.
Diagnosis & Specialized Care
Look to us for testing, diagnosis and advanced care for your child’s symptoms or treatment for a previously diagnosed neurological condition. Our pediatric doctors provide compassionate care for children from birth to age 18.
Conditions We Treat
Find treatment for a wide range of common and rare pediatric skull, brain, spinal cord and nervous system conditions, including:
- Apert syndrome – Genetic mutation causing skull, face and limb abnormalities
- Brain deformities
- Holoprosencephaly – Abnormal brain development; the brain does not divide into the right and left hemispheres
- Optic nerve hypoplasia – Underdeveloped optic nerve
- Schizencephaly – Defect at birth; causes abnormal gaps in the largest part of the brain
- Septo-optic dysplasia – Underdevelopment of the optic nerves connecting the eyes to the brain
- Cerebral palsy
- Epilepsy and seizures
- Headaches
- Hypotonia – Decreased muscle tone from damage to the brain, spinal cord, nerves or muscles affecting the signals that tell the muscle to contract
- Isolated developmental delay
- Leukodystrophy – Metabolic genetic disease affecting the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves
- Mitochondrial disorders – DNA genetic mutations cause the body’s energy-making function not to work properly
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neuromuscular disorders, such as:
- Neurocutaneous syndromes, such as neurofibromatosis and tuberous sclerosis
- Stroke follow-up
- Tourette syndrome and tics
- Movement disorders such as dystonia, choreoathetosis, hemiballismus, tremors and spasticity
