Afsaneh Talai, MD
Pediatric Neurologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English,
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Oklahoma Health Science Center (2014)
- Residency
- University of Chicago Medicine - GME (2019), Pediatric Neurology
- Fellowship
- University of Colorado - Children's Hosp. Colorado (2020), Pediatric Epilepsy
- Board Certification
- American Board of Psy&Neurology/Child Neurology
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Intractable epilepsies
- Magnetoencephalography
- Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
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Publications
- Redefining the "hyperphotoconvulsive" response of late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. Talai A, Ng YT, Pediatric neurology 2014 Feb 50 2 195-6
- Ondansetron for Acute Migraine in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Talai A, Heilbrunn B, Pediatric neurology 2020 02 103 52-56
- Mechanism of CREB recognition and coactivation by the CREB-regulated transcriptional coactivator CRTC2. Luo Q, Viste K, Urday-Zaa JC, Senthil Kumar G, Tsai WW, Talai A, Mayo KE, Montminy M, Radhakrishnan I, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012 Dec 109 51 20865-70
- Perioperative Management of Children on Ketogenic Dietary Therapies. Conover ZR, Talai A, Klockau KS, Ing RJ, Chatterjee D, Anesthesia and analgesia 2020 Aug
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Neurology
- American Clinical MEG Society
- American Epilepsy Society
- Child Neurology Society
- Functional Neurological Disorder Society
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Awards and Honors
- The Elterman Family Fund Research Grant 2021, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Best Resident Research Project 2019, Barry G.W. Arnason Lectureship and Research Symposium, University of Chicago
- Best Resident Research Project 2017, Barry G.W. Arnason Lectureship and Research Symposium, University of Chicago