Professor, Pediatric Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine

Pediatrics

Christopher C. Giza, MD works in the field of Pediatrics. He went to West Virginia University School of Medicine. He over the years received 3 awards: "Regional Top Doctor", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Super Doctor". Doctor Christopher C. Giza, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 62 publications published. The latest was: Pathogenesis of the developmental epilepsies.

Publications

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• Determining Brain fitness to fight: Has the time come?
• Concussion Recovery Time Among High School and Collegiate Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Targeting the Epidemic: Interventions and Follow-up Are Necessary in the Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic.
• Expert consensus document: Mind the gaps-advancing research into short-term and long-term neuropsychological outcomes of youth sports-related Concussions.
• Diagnosis and management of acute Concussion.
• Early PostTraumatic Seizures in the Pediatric Population.
• Development and validation of a seizure prediction model in critically ill children.
• The new neurometabolic cascade of Concussion.
• Acute care clinical indicators associated with discharge outcomes in children with severe traumatic Brain injury*.
• Electrographic Seizures after Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children and Young Adults: A Retrospective Multicenter Study.
• Subclinical early postTraumatic seizures detected by continuous EEG monitoring in a consecutive pediatric cohort.
• Amnesia for Early Life Stress Does Not Preclude the Adult Development of PostTraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Rats.
• PostTraumatic vertigo and dizziness.
• The pathophysiology of traumatic Brain injury at a glance.
• Electroencephalography monitoring in critically ill children: Current practice and implications for future study design.
• Electrographic seizures in pediatric ICU patients: Cohort study of risk factors and mortality.
• National Variability in Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Craniotomy for Children with Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Summary of evidence-based guideline update: evaluation and management of Concussion in sports: report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy...
• Pediatric ICU EEG Monitoring: Current Resources and Practice in the United States and Canada.
• Prevalence of epileptic and nonepileptic events after pediatric traumatic Brain injury.
• Potentially neuroprotective gene modulation in an in vitro model of mild traumatic Brain injury.
• Repeated mild traumatic Brain injury: mechanisms of cerebral vulnerability.
• Triage of Children with Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury to Trauma Centers.
• A pediatric perspective on Concussion pathophysiology.
• Common data elements for pediatric traumatic Brain injury: recommendations from the working group on demographics and clinical assessment.
• The Neurometabolic Cascade of Concussion.
• Developing guidelines for return to play: consensus and evidence-based approaches.
• White matter disruption in moderate/severe pediatric traumatic Brain injury: advanced tract-based analyses.
• Effects of enriched environment and fluid percussion Injury on dendritic arborization within the cerebral cortex of the developing rat.
• Increased hippocampal CA3 vulnerability to low-level kainic acid following lateral fluid percussion Injury.
• Tick paralysis presenting in an urban environment.
• Injury-induced alterations in N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit composition contribute to prolonged 45calcium accumulation following lateral fluid percussion.
• Subdural hematoma and retinal hemorrhages in an infant: accidental or nonaccidental Injury?
• Experience-dependent behavioral plasticity is disturbed following traumatic injury to the immature Brain.
• Lateral fluid percussion Injury in the developing rat causes an acute, mild behavioral dysfunction in the absence of significant cell death.
• N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit changes after traumatic injury to the developing Brain.
• Is being plastic fantastic? Mechanisms of altered plasticity after developmental traumatic Brain injury.
• Induction of monocarboxylate transporter 2 expression and ketone transport following traumatic Brain injury in juvenile and adult rats.
• Pediatric traumatic Brain injury: not just little adults.
• Acute neuroprotection to pilocarpine-induced seizures is not sustained after traumatic Brain injury in the developing rat.
• Ontogeny of Rat Recognition Memory measured by the novel object recognition task.
• Treatment of traumatic Brain injury in pediatrics.
• Metabolic levels in the corpus callosum and their structural and behavioral correlates after moderate to severe pediatric TBI.
• Hitting a moving target: Basic mechanisms of recovery from acquired developmental Brain injury.
• New techniques in Concussion imaging.
• Early and sustained increase in the expression of hippocampal IGF-1, but not EPO, in a developmental rodent model of traumatic Brain injury.
• Repeat traumatic Brain injury in the juvenile rat is associated with increased axonal injury and cognitive impairments.
• Molecular and physiological responses to juvenile traumatic Brain injury: focus on growth and metabolism.
• The molecular pathophysiology of concussive Brain injury.
• High efficiency transient expression of eukaryotic genes: use of an HSV-1 immediate early promoter (ICP4).
• Pathogenesis of the developmental epilepsies.
• Periventricular nodular heterotopia and childhood absence Epilepsy.
• Postoperative seizure control and antiepileptic drug use in pediatric Epilepsy surgery patients: the UCLA experience, 1986-1997.
• Inhibition of neocortical plasticity during development by a moderate concussive Brain injury.
• Sideline assessment of sports Concussion: the lure of simplicity.
• Traumatic Brain injury in adult rats causes progressive nigrostriatal dopaminergic cell loss and enhanced vulnerability to the pesticide paraquat.
• The pathophysiology of Concussions in youth.
• Concussive Brain injury enhances fear learning and excitatory processes in the amygdala.
• Genes preferentially induced by depolarization after concussive Brain injury: effects of age and injury severity.
• Pivotal role of anterior cingulate cortex in working memory after traumatic Brain injury in youth.
• Neurotrophin dependence domain: a domain required for the mediation of apoptosis by the p75 neurotrophin receptor.

Schools

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• West Virginia University

Procedures Preformed

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• EEG (Electroencephalogram)

Conditions Treated

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• Ataxia
• Brain Injury
• Cerebral Palsy
• Chorea (Excluding Huntington's Chorea)
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Doctors Specialties

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• Neurology
• Pediatric Neurology
• Pediatrics

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Regional Top Doctor
• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
• Super Doctor

Education

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• UCLA Medical Center
• University of Pennsylvania Health System
• West Virginia University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

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