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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 epilepsy surgery; postoperative antiepileptic drug withdrawal; ESES treatment; stress and epilepsy; and epileptic focus detection in surgical candidates.

Kees Braun currently is president of the Dutch Society of Paediatric Neurology and of the organizing committee of the 2016 world congress of child neurology (ICNC) in Amsterdam. He is member of the European Task Force for Epilepsy Surgery in Children (U-Task), the European Network for Epilepsy Research (ENER), and work-package leader of the EU-funded E-PILEPSY project.

Research line

Refractory epilepsy

Most recent key publications

1: Boshuisen K, Arzimanoglou A, Cross JH, Uiterwaal CS, Polster T, van Nieuwenhuizen O, Braun KP; for the TimeToStop study Group. Timing of antiepileptic drug withdrawal and long-term seizure outcome after paediatric epilepsy surgery (TimeToStop): a retrospective observational study. Lancet Neurol 2012:11:784-791
2: Van Campen JS, Jansen FE, Pet MA, Otte WM, Hillegers MH, Joels M, Braun KP. Relation between stress-precipitated seizures and the stress response in childhood epilepsy. Brain 2015;138:2234-2248
3: Lamberink HJ, Boshuisen K, van Rijen PC, Gosselaar PH, Braun KP. Changing profiles of pediatric epilepsy surgery candidates over time: a nationwide single-center experience from 1990 to 2011. Epilepsia 215;56:717-725
4: Boshuisen K, van Schooneveld MM, Uiterwaal CS, Cross JH, Harrison S, Polster T, Daehn M, Djimjadi S, Yalnizoglu D, Turanli G, Sassen R, Hoppe C, Kuczaty S, Barba C, Kahane P, Schubert-Bast S, Reuner G, Bast T, Strobl K, Mayer H, de Saint-Martin A, Seegmuller C, Laurent A, Arzimanoglou A, Braun KP, for the TimeToStop cognitive outcome study group. Intelligence quotient improves after antiepileptic drug withdrawal following pediatric epilepsy surgery. Ann Neurol 2015;78:104-114
5: Braun KPJ, Bulder MMM, Chabrier S, Kirkham FJ, Uiterwaal CSP, Tardieu M, Sebire G. Longitudinal vascular imaging in 79 children with ischemic stroke and unilateral intracranial arteriopathy. Brain 2009;132:544-557

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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

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
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 Di Gennaro, Vincenzo Esposito, Istvan Bodi, Mrinalini Honavar, Christian G. Bien, Thomas Cloppenborg, Roland Coras, Hajo M. Hamer, Petr Marusic, Adam Kalina, Tom Pieper, Manfred Kudernatsch, Till S. Hartlieb, Tim J. Von Oertzen, Martin Aichholzer, Georg Dorfmuller, Mathilde Chipaux, Soheyl Noachtar, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Christian F. Scheiwe, Cigdem Özkara, Thomas Grunwald, Kristina Koenig, Renzo Guerrini, Carmen Barba, Anna Maria Buccoliero, Flavio Giordano, Felix Rosenow, Katja Menzler, Rita Garbelli, Francesco Deleo, Pavel Krsek, Barbora Straka, Alexis A. Arzimanoglou, Joseph Toulouse, Wim Van Paesschen, Tom Theys, José Pimentel, Isabel M. Loução De Amorim, Nicola Specchio, Luca De Palma, Martha Feucht, Theresa Scholl, Karl Roessler, Rafael Toledano Delgado, Antonio Gil-Nagel, Savo Raicevic, Aleksandar J. Ristic, Olaf Schijns, Jan Beckervordersandforth, Victoria San Antonio-Arce, Jordi Rumia, Ingmar Blumcke, Kees P. Braun
Neurology, 2024, vol. 102
Exit Strategy Marian Galovic, Carolina Ferreira-Atuesta, Lara E. Jehi, Kees P.J. Braun, Samuel W. Terman
Epilepsy Currents, 2024, vol. 24, p.150-155
Air pollution and childhood epilepsy diagnosis at a first seizure clinic in The Netherlands Geertruida Slinger, Sien T. Verbeek, Eric van Diessen, Lotte Noorlag, Kees P.J. Braun, Youchen Shen, Willem M. Otte, George S. Downward
Environmental Advances, 2024, vol. 16
Seizure Outcome After Intraoperative Electrocorticography-Tailored Epilepsy Surgery Jiaojiao Guo, Ziyi Wang, Maryse A. van 't Klooster, Sandra M. Van Der Salm, Frans S. Leijten, Kees P. Braun, Maeike Zijlmans
Neurology, 2024, vol. 102

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