Dr. Harold George Marks MD
Neurologist (Pediatric) | Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
St Christopher's Hospital Fo Erie Avenue At Front Philadelphia PA, 19134About
Dr. Harold Marks is a child neurologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Marks 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. Marks 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
University of Mi Med Sch 1972
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- MR imaging findings in children with merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy.
- Mutations in noncoding regions of the proteolipid protein gene in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease.
- Effect of triplet repeat expansion on chromatin structure and expression of DMPK and neighboring genes, SIX5 and DMWD, in myotonic dystrophy.
- A PLP splicing abnormality is associated with an unusual presentation of PMD.
- Oxcarbazepine monotherapy in children and adolescents: a single-center clinical experience.
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 mimicking Kearns-Sayre syndrome: a clinical diagnosis is desirable.
- Epilepsy and respiratory chain defects in children with mitochondrial encephalopathies.
- Efficacy and safety of lamotrigine monotherapy in children and adolescents with epilepsy.
- Maternal muscle biopsy in X-linked recessive centronuclear (myotubular) myopathy.
- Efficacy and tolerability of topiramate in pediatric migraine.
- Microarray analysis in children with developmental disorder or epilepsy.
- Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease.
- Correction of a short cardiac PR interval in a 12-year-old girl with late-onset Pompe disease following enzyme replacement therapy.
- [Locoregional chemotherapy of liver tumors].
- Scoliosis in Rett syndrome.
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