The participant spent the first 19 days after birth in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) because of respiratory distress, feeding issues, low muscle tone (hypotonia) and slow heart rate (bradycardia). She was also found to have a heart defect (atrial septal defect). An initial MRI showed almost complete lack … read more
The participant experienced early developmental delays. She crawled and sat independently at 9 months and had a vocabulary of 3 words by 12-15 months. However, she lost her language skills after her seizures began at 14-15 months. Her generalized tonic-colonic seizures occur about once a week in addition to more … read more
The participant was born at 38 weeks after a complicated pregnancy involving preterm labor. There were no complications at the time of birth. At 8 weeks old, he was diagnosed with Shone Complex, a combination of several heart defects (coarctation of the aorta, bicuspid aortic valve, aortic valve stenosis, abnormal … read more
