Dr. Leon Sebring Dure M.D.
Neurologist (Pediatric) | Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
1600 7th Ave S Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Leon Dure is a child neurologist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Dure specializes in diagnosing and treating disorders of the nervous system in children from birth to young adulthood. With combined understanding of childhood illness and the special needs of each individual child and their family, Dr. Dure is able to help each patient improve the status of their health. Conditions such as seizures, delayed speech, weakness or frequent headaches are treated by child neurologists.
Education and Training
Baylor College of Medicine 1984
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The regulation of enzyme synthesis in the embryogenesis and germination of cotton.
- Mammal-like striatal functions in Anolis. II. Distribution of dopamine D(1) and D(2) receptors, and a laminar pattern of basal ganglia sub-systems.
- Medial medullary injury during adenoidectomy.
- Essential tremor in childhood: a series of nineteen cases.
- The developmental biochemistry of cotton seed embryogenesis and germination. VI. Levels of cytosol and chloroplast aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases during cotyledon development.
- Mutations in TITF-1 are associated with benign hereditary chorea.
- Clinical and genetic heterogeneity in benign hereditary chorea.
- Developmental biochemistry of cotton seed embryogenesis and germination. VII. Characterization of the cotton genome.
- Excitatory amino acid binding sites in the basal ganglia of the rat: a quantitative autoradiographic study.
- Requirements for luminescence in extracts of a balanoglossid species.
- Preferential loss of striato-external pallidal projection neurons in presymptomatic Huntington's disease.
- Compartmentalization of excitatory amino acid receptors in human striatum.
- STUDIES ON THE BIOLUMINESCENCE OF BALANOGLOSSUS BIMINIENSIS EXTRACTS. 3. A
- CRYSTALLINE BACTERIAL LUCIFERASE FROM PHOTOBERTERIUM FISCHERI.
- Exclusive lower extremity mirror movements and diastematomyelia.
Treatments
- Epilepsy
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