Kees Braun

Full Professor

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Biography

Kees Braun obtained his Medical Degree at Utrecht University in January 1992. He specialized in Neurology (registered in 2000) and Paediatric Neurology (registered in 2002) in the UMC Utrecht. In 2000 he obtained his PhD degree on a thesis entitled “Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Hydrocephalus. He was appointed as staff neurologist in 2000 and paediatric neurologist in 2002. Since 2011 he is head of Paediatric Neurology/Neurosurgery. In May 2012 he was appointed as a full professor of Paediatric Neurology.

His clinical and scientific areas of expertise are: refractory paediatric epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, imaging in epilepsy, and childhood arteriopathic stroke, in particular moyamoya treatment.

He coordinates epilepsy research in the UMCU Brain center. The epilepsy research projects he is personally involved in focus on the effects of focal epilepsy on the brain in animal models and patients (structural and functional integrity and network analysis); seizure- and cognitive outcome after paediatric...

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Contact

kbraun2@umcutrecht.nl

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Research groups

Personalized prediction, treatment and genetics in epilepsy

Research aim

We develop personalized methods for diagnosing, treating, and predicting outcome in epilepsy. Our aim is to better control seizures, treat comorbidities, and improve quality of life with a precision medicine approach in all people with epilepsy.

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Recent publications

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Reader Response Georgia Ramantani, Dorottya Cserpan, Josef Zentner, Martin M. Tisdall, Kees P. Braun
Neurology, 2024, vol. 103

Quality of life in SCN1A-related seizure disorders across the lifespan. Crista A Minderhoud, Amber Postma, Floor E Jansen, Janneke R Zinkstok, Judith S Verhoeven, Bianca Berghuis, Wim M Otte, Marian J Jongmans, Kees P J Braun, Eva H Brilstra
Brain communications, 2024, vol. 6

N-of-1 trials in epilepsy Victoria M Defelippe, Eva H Brilstra, Willem M Otte, Helen J Cross, Finbar O'Callaghan, Valentina De Giorgis, Annapurna Poduri, Holger Lerche, Sanjay Sisodiya, Kees P J Braun, Floor E Jansen, Emilio Perucca
Epilepsia, 2024, vol. 65, p.3119-3137

Somatic variant analysis of resected brain tissue in epilepsy surgery patients Maurits W.C.B. Sanders, Bobby P.C. Koeleman, Eva H. Brilstra, Floor E. Jansen, Sara Baldassari, Mathilde Chipaux, Nam Suk Sim, Ara Ko, Hoon Chul Kang, Ingmar Blümcke, Dennis Lal, Stéphanie Baulac, Jeong Ho Lee, Eleonora Aronica, Kees P.J. Braun
Epilepsia, 2024, vol. 65, p.e209-e215

Outcome of Epilepsy Surgery in MRI-Negative Patients Without Histopathologic Abnormalities in the Resected Tissue Maurits W. Sanders, Iskander Van Der Wolf, Floor E. Jansen, Eleonora Aronica, Christoph Helmstaedter, Attila Racz, Rainer Surges, Alexander Grote, Albert J. Becker, Sylvain Rheims, Hélène Catenoix, John S. Duncan, Jane De Tisi, Thomas S. Jacques, J. Helen Cross, Reetta Kalviainen, Tuomas Rauramaa, Francine Chassoux, Bertrand C. Devaux, Giancarlo... Show all

Vigabatrin-associated brain magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities and clinical symptoms in infants with tuberous sclerosis complex Carmen Stevering, Maarten Lequin, Kinga Szczepaniak, Krzysztof Sadowski, Saba Ishrat, Alberto De Luca, Alexander Leemans, Willem Otte, David J. Kwiatkowski, Paolo Curatolo, Bernhard Weschke, Kate Riney, Martha Feucht, Pavel Krsek, Rima Nabbout, Anna Jansen, Konrad Wojdan, Kamil Sijko, Jagoda Glowacka-Walas, Julita Borkowska, Dorota Domanska-Pakiela, Romina Moavero, Christoph Hertzberg, Hanna... Show all

Fellowships & Awards

1: Recipient of the first “Patrick Hanlo Award”, March 17 2009
2: Personal investment grant for epilepsy research by the Dutch National Epilepsy Fund
3: Recipient of the “Gerlach Cerfontaine Fellowship” of the Catharijne Foundation, UMCU, 1998-2000, for the PhD project “Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Hydrocephalus”
4: Recipient of several research grants...

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