Dr. Douglas G Postels MD
Neurologist (Pediatric) | Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
138 Service Road Suite A217 East Lansing MI, 48824About
Dr. Douglas Postels is a child neurologist practicing in East Lansing, MI. Dr. Postels 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. Postels 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
Loyola Univ of Chicago Stritch Sch of Med, Maywood Il 1988
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Severe pernicious anaemia in an 8-year-old African girl.
- The interaction of malnutrition and neurologic disability in Africa.
- Prevalence of depression in Parkinson's disease patients in Ethiopia.
- Teaching and Practicing Neuro-Ophthalmology in Low-Resource Countries.
- Safety of lumbar puncture in comatose children with clinical features of cerebral malaria.
- Evidence from a natural experiment that malaria parasitemia is pathogenic in
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