Dr. Steven G Pavlakis MD
Neurologist (Pediatric) | Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
948 48th St Brooklyn NY, 11219About
Dr. Steven Pavlakis is a child neurologist practicing in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Pavlakis specializes in diagnosing and treating disorders of the nervous system in children from birth to young adulthood. With combined understanding of childhood illness and the special needs of each individual child and their family, Dr. Pavlakis is able to help each patient improve the status of their health. Conditions such as seizures, delayed speech, weakness or frequent headaches are treated by child neurologists.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hypertensive encephalopathy, reversible occipitoparietal encephalopathy, or reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy: three names for an old syndrome.
- Correlation of basal ganglia magnetic resonance spectroscopy with Apgar score in perinatal asphyxia.
- Stroke in children: genetic and metabolic issues.
- Brain imaging in neurobehavioral disorders.
- Sickle cell disease: the neurological complications.
- Little folk strokes: current questions.
- Sickle cell disease: ischemia and seizures.
- Sickle cell disease and electroencephalogram hyperventilation.
- Pediatric stroke: Opportunities and challenges in planning clinical trials.
- Lacunar stroke and masked hypertension in an adolescent male.
- Steroid-responsive chorea in moyamoya disease.
- Arterial ischemic stroke: common risk factors in newborns and children.
- Hemodynamic etiology of elevated flow velocity and stroke in sickle-cell disease.
- Significance of cerebrovascular disease in sickle cell anemia diagnosed by magnetic resonance angiography.
- Hypothalamic-midbrain dysregulation syndrome: hypertension, hyperthermia,
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