Marcus Professor in Neurology, Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Emory University
Child Neurology
Dr. Sookyong Koh, MD
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Sookyong works in the field of Child Neurology. She went to University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She received awards:"Regional Top Doctor", "Baccalaureate Degree Summa Cum Laude", "National Research Service Award", "Postdoctoral Fellowship", "Physician Scientist Clinical Scholarship", "Dixon Woodbury Fellowship", "Victor Horsley Fellowship", "Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award K08 NS0206", "Independent Scientist Award K02 NS48237", "Child Neurology Foundation Scientific Award", "Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award" and "Research Grant R01NS073768". Sookyong is a published doctor. She published 21 publications, including: 'Thrombin decreases expression of the glutamate transporter GLAST and inhibits glutamate uptake in primary cortical astrocytes via the Rho kinase pathway.'
Publications
- Thrombin decreases expression of the glutamate transporter GLAST and inhibits glutamate uptake in primary cortical astrocytes via the Rho kinase pathway.
- Lipopolysaccharide potentiates hyperthermia-induced seizures.
- Early Anatomical Injury Patterns Predict Epilepsy in Head Cooled Neonates With Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy.
- Ictal ontogeny in Dravet syndrome.
- N-type calcium channel antibody-mediated autoimmune encephalitis: An unlikely cause of a common presentation.
- Initial evaluation and management of a first seizure in children.
- Maturation-dependent behavioral deficits and cell injury in developing animals during the subacute postictal period.
- Temperature-sensitive Cav1.2 calcium channels support intrinsic firing of pyramidal neurons and provide a target for the treatment of febrile seizures.
- Minocycline attenuates microglia activation and blocks the long-term epileptogenic effects of early-life seizures.
- Randomized, phase III study results of clobazam in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
- Characterization of a commonly used mouse model of SMA reveals increased seizure susceptibility and heightened fear response in FVB/N mice.
- Cellular injury and neuroinflammation in children with chronic intractable Epilepsy.
- Neurocognitive effects of adjunctive levetiracetam in children with partial-onset seizures: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, noninferiority trial.
- Child Neurology: Dravet syndrome: when to suspect the diagnosis.
- Early-life experience alters response of developing brain to seizures.
- Role of brain inflammation in epileptogenesis.
- Glial activation links early-life seizures and long-term neurologic dysfunction: evidence using a small molecule inhibitor of proinflammatory cytokine upregulation.
- Dravet syndrome (severe myoclonic Epilepsy in infancy): a retrospective study of 16 patients.
- Age-dependent changes in intrinsic neuronal excitability in subiculum after status epilepticus.
- Immune mechanisms in epileptogenesis.
Schools
University Of Rochester
Conditions Treated
- Ataxia
- Convulsions
- Dystonia
- Epilepsy
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Doctors Specialties
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Child Neurology
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Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Baccalaureate Degree Summa Cum Laude
- National Research Service Award
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Physician Scientist Clinical Scholarship
- Dixon Woodbury Fellowship
- Victor Horsley Fellowship
- Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award K08 NS0206
- Independent Scientist Award K02 NS48237
- Child Neurology Foundation Scientific Award
- Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award
- Research Grant R01NS073768
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Tufts Medical Center -
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Hospital
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Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago -
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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