Neurology / Pediatric

Specialists in the Department of Neurology see patients in the areas of adult neurology, rehabilitation, and pediatric neurology.

General adult neurology services are offered along with treatment and/or rehabilitation for stroke, spinal cord and brain injury, movement disorders, sleep problems, aging and dementia, neuromuscular and cerebrovascular disease.

Pediatric patients are seen for general neurology, stroke, movement disorders and epilepsy, in addition to neuro-rehabilitation services and epilepsy monitoring.

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Bradley L. Schlaggar, MD, PhD

Specialty Areas
Neurology - Pediatric
Cerebral Palsy
Pediatric Stroke
Pediatric Movement Disorders
Tourette's Syndrome

Areas of Clinical Interest
Child neurology, stroke, cerebral palsy, hemiplegic cerebral palsy, cognitive disorders, movement disorders, Tourette syndrome

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Honors and Awards
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2005 - 2009 (Best Doctors, Inc)
John Merck Scholarship in the Biology of Developmental Disabilities in Children, 2002
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Science, 2002
Dana Foundation Clinical Hypotheses in Imaging Award, 2002
McDonnell Center for Higher Brain Function Award, 2002
Scholar, Child Health Center of Excellence in Developmental Biology, NIH and Washington University School of Medicine, 2000-2001
Clinical Mentor, Lucille P. Markey Pathway, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 2000-2001
McDonnell Center for Higher Brain Function, Small Grants Award, 1999-2001
Outstanding Fellow Teacher Award, St. Louis Children's Hospital at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1998
ASSIST (American Stop Smoking Intervention Study) Community Leadership Award, 1997
Irwin Levy Prize in Neurology & Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1994
Wendel S. Krieg Cortical Scholars Award, 1993

Journal Articles

Schlaggar BL, Church JA. Functional Neuroimaging Insights into the Development of Skilled Reading. Current Directions in Psychological Sciences 2009; 18: 21-26.

Church JA, Fair DA, Dosenbach NUF, Cohen AL, Miezin FM, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Control networks in pediatric Tourette syndrome show immature and anomalous patterns of functional connectivity. Brain 2009; 132:225-238.

Ihnen SKZ, Church JA, Petersen, SE, Schlaggar BL. Lack of generalizability of sex differences in the fMRI BOLD activity associated with language processing in adults. NeuroImage 2009; 45(3):1020-1032.

White BR, Snyder AZ, Cohen AL, Petersen SE, Raichle ME, Schlaggar BL, Culver JP. Resting-state functional connectivity in the human brain revealed with diffuse optical tomography. In Press, NeuroImage. 2009

Fair DA, Cohen AL, Power JD, Dosenbach NUF, Church JA, Miezin FM, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE. Functional Brain Networks Develop from a "Local to Distributed" Organization. PLoS Comput Biol 2009; 5(5): e1000381. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000381

Dosenbach NU, Miezin FM, Burgund ED, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE. Timing and control-related networks dissociated by mixed blocked/event-related fMRI. Trends in Cognitive Science 2008; 12(3):99-105.

Fair DA, Dosenbach NUF, Church JA, Cohen AL, Miezin FM, Barch D, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL.  The Maturing Architecture of the Brain's Default Network. Proc Nat Acad Sci. 2008; 105:4028-4032.

Church JA, Coalson RS, Lugar HM, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. A developmental fMRI study of reading and repetition reveals changes in phonological and visual mechanisms over age. Cerebral Cortex 2008; 18:2054-2065.

Cohen LA, Fair DA, Dosenbach NUF, Miezin FM, Dierker D, Van Essen DC, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE. Defining Functional Areas in Individual Human Brains using Resting Functional Connectivity MRI. NeuroImage 2008; 41:45-57.

Church JA, Fair DA, Dosenbach NUF, Cohen AL, Miezin FM, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Control networks in pediatric Tourette syndrome show immature and anomalous patterns of functional connectivity. Brain, Oct 24. E-Pub ahead of print, 2008

Becker DB, Coalson RS, Sachanandani NS, Fair DA, Lugar HM, Kirchner LE, Schlaggar BL, Kane AA. Functional neuroanatomy of lexical processing in children with cleft lip and palate. Plast Reconstr Surg 2008; 122:1371-82.

Schlaggar BL, Brown TT, Lugar HL, Visscher KM, Miezin FM, Petersen SE. Functional neuroanatomical differences between adults and school-age children in the processing of single words. Science 2002; 296:1476-1479

Wong M, Schlaggar BL, Landt M. Postictal cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities in children. J Pediatrics 2001; 138:373-377

Wong M, Schlaggar BL, Buller RS, Storch GA, Landt M. Cerebrospinal fluid protein in pediatric patients: Defining clinically-relevant values. Arch Dis Child Adolesc 2000; 154:827-831

Fox K, Schlaggar BL, Glazewski S, O'Leary DDM. Glutamate receptor blockade at cortical synapses disrupts development of thalamocortical and columnar organization in somatosensory cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1996; 93:5584-5589

Tuttle R, Schlaggar BL, Braisted JE, O'Leary DDM. Maturation-dependent upregulation of growth-promoting molecules in developing cortical plate controls thalamic cortical neurite growth. Journal of Neuroscience 1995; 15(4):3039-3052

Schlaggar BL, Fox K, O'Leary DDM. Postsynaptic control of plasticity in developing somatosensory cortex. Nature 1993; 364:623-626

Schlaggar BL, O'Leary DDM. Potential of visual cortex to develop an array of functional units unique to somatosensory cortex. Science 1991; 252:1556-1560

Reviews

Schlaggar BL, Mink J. A 16 year old with episodic hemidystonia. Seminars in Pediatric Neurology 1999; 6(3)210-215

O'Leary DDM, Borngasser DJ, Fox K, Schlaggar BL. Plasticity in the development of neocortical areas. Development of the Cerebral Cortex Ciba Foundation Symposium 193, John Wiley & Sons, 214-230, 1995

O'Leary DDM, Schlaggar BL, Tuttle R. Specification of neocortical areas and thalamocortical connections. Annual Review of Neuroscience 1994; 17:419-439

Schlaggar BL, O'Leary DDM. Patterning of the barrelfield in somatosensory cortex with implications for the specification of neocortical areas. Perspectives on Developmental Neurobiology 1993; 1:81-92

O'Leary DDM, Schlaggar BL, Stanfield BB. The specification of sensory cortex: Lessons from cortical transplantation Experimental Neurology, 1992; 115:121-126

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Bradley L. Schlaggar, MD, PhD