Steven G. Pavlakis, MD

Neurology
Pediatric Neurology

Neurology
Pediatric Neurology

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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.

Education

  • Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Campus

  • Internship: Brown University

Board Certifications

  • 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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Pediatric Neurology – High Blood Pressure

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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Pediatric Neurology – Developmental Delays

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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Pediatric Neurology – Spinal Muscular Atrophy

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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Pediatric Neurology – Medical Innovations

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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Pediatric Neurology – Epilepsy

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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Pediatric Neurology – Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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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Pediatric Neurology – Brain Tumor

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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Pediatric Neurology – Seizures

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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Pediatric Neurology – Headaches

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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Pediatric Neurology – Genetic Disorders

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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