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Each month Your Child’s Brain will bring together experts in child brain health, including researchers, educators, physicians and therapists as well as families to discuss contemporary topics about child and youth brain health and development.

Your Child's Brain is produced by Kennedy Krieger Institute with assistance from WYPR.

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Unlocking the Stigma of Epilepsy

Epilepsy is one of the most common serious neurologic disorders seen in children and adults, in fact, 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy during their lifetime. It can occur on its own or alongside other health conditions of the brain.

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Down Syndrome and the Impact of a Longer Life Span

In this podcast of Your Child’s Brain we talk about Down Syndrome and especially focus on how the increased lifespan of those with Down syndrome is impacting treatment and research for people living with this diagnosis.

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How Experience and Environment Impact Our Early Brain Development

In this month’s episode of Your Child’s Brain, join Dr. Brad Schlaggar and his guests as they reflect on this influential report and discuss how early experiences, environments and exposures influence the developing brain early experiences, environments and exposures influence the developing brain.

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Muscular Dystrophy

In this episode of Your Child’s Brain, Dr. Brad Schlaggar is joined by his Kennedy Krieger colleague, Dr. Doris Leung, to discuss a set of diseases of muscle that we refer to collectively as muscular dystrophy (MD).

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Disability Services in College

Join Dr. Brad Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute and Dr. Lisa Carey, the Assistant Director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education as well as an education specialist for the Neuropsychology Department at Kennedy Krieger. Accommodations for college require self-advocacy. It is the student themselves who must request those accommodations at the school—not the parents.

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The Impact of a Physician Shortage on Children

In the United States alone, there are nearly 20 million children with developmental, cognitive, behavioral, and/or learning disorders. It is widely recognized that the needs of children with these issues are growing in number and complexity while, at the same time, a critical shortage of access to physician specialists is resulting in delayed diagnoses, longer wait times for treatment and, consequently, poorer outcomes. On this month’s episode, Kennedy Krieger president and CEO, Dr. Brad Schlaggar is joined by colleagues Dr. Miya Asato, a pediatric neurologist and Dr. Mary Leppert, a developmental pediatrician to discuss the critical shortage and what is being done to address it and more importantly, what parents can do.

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Functional Neurological Disorders (FND)

On this month’s episode of Your Child's Brain, our experts are going to discuss Functional Neurological Disorders or FND. Functional neurological disorders can cause significant morbidity, but, thankfully, can most often be remedied by prompt identification, education and appropriate treatment.

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Navigating Childhood: Insights into Challenging Behaviors and Family Dynamic

Join Dr. Brad Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger and his guest Dr. Matt Edelstein, director of Kennedy Krieger's Brief Treatment Clinic, as they discuss challenging behaviors in children and how those behaviors can have a cascading impact at multiple levels of a family system.

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Inside the Mind: Anxiety and Autism

April is known internationally as Autism Acceptance Month. As part of that recognition, join Dr. Brad Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger and his guests Drs. Amy Keefer and Roma Vasa from the Center for Autism, Services, Science and Innovation, to discuss the anxiety disorders common in individuals with autism and discuss why this population may be particularly vulnerable to the comorbid symptoms of anxiety, as well as treatment options and research being done in this field.