Genetic Epilepsies in Babies - Finding Answers - Amy McTague, McTague Lab, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UCL, UK

Hear from peadiatric neurologist and scientist Amy McTague who helps babies and families when it comes to the diagnosis, treatment, and care for the babies who have a genetic epilepsy.

See the below for links to Amy and the glossary link to terms used in the recording.

• About Amy

  Amy is a childhood epilepsy clinician and scientist and PI of the McTague Lab at Great Ormond Street Hospital, UCL, UK.

  As a consultant in the Complex Epilepsy team Amy specialises in the early-onset, complex genetic epilepsies, seeing patients from all around the country.

  Amy undertakes Epilepsy Genomics clinics and has established an Epilepsy Genomics MDT for phenotypic and variant classification. She is a co-investigator in trials of novel therapies for Dravet syndrome and in a Dravet syndrome natural history study.

• Links to Amy & associated organisations

  Twitter | UCL | UCL IRIS | GOSH | ILAE | Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital | SickKids | Boston Children’s Hospital | EpiCARE

• Glossary terms (new)

  Clinician | Early Onset Epilepsy | Gain/loss of function | Gene therapy | Molecular genetics | Movement disorder | Phenotype | Rare epilepsy | Ion channels | Axon Hillock | Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels (VGSCs/NaVs) | Action potential/Neural impulse/Spike | Sodium channel | Sodium channel blockers | Stem cells | Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) | Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) | Trio tests | Genetic variant

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