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Alan Leviton

Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital

Publications -  472
Citations -  31540

Alan Leviton is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gestational age & Pregnancy. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 468 publications receiving 29272 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan Leviton include Floating Hospital for Children & Tufts Medical Center.

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Clinical Practice Guidelines and Practice Parameters for the Child Neurologist

TL;DR: This overview, written for child neurologists, addresses such issues as what are clinical practice guidelines, why are they needed, how are they created, how well are they accepted and adhered to, what influences acceptance and adherence.
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Antecedents of epilepsy and seizures among children born at extremely low gestational age.

TL;DR: In children born extremely preterm, epilepsy and seizures not associated with epilepsy have different risk profiles, and though both profiles included indicators of infection and inflammation, the profile of risk factors for epilepsy included multiple indicators of endogenous vulnerability.
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Brain development and the attention spectrum.

TL;DR: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) seems to be considerably more common than other diagnoses among “double-diagnoses” given to children with developmental dysfunctions, yet the exact prevalence, neurobiological mechanisms, genetic and epigenetic modifications, diagnostic difficulties and treatment methods have not been clearly identified or quantified.