Cerebral Folate Deficiency in Autism - V. Ramaekers MD, University of Liege & Aachen @Synchrony2020

➤ Cerebral Folate Deficiency syndromes and their major origin attributed to folate receptor-alpha autoantibodies.
➤The discovery of severe infantile Autism associated with neurological deficits in a number of patients with Cerebral Folate Deficiency.
➤ Subsequent studies on brain folate deficiency in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
➤The diagnosis, treatment and prevention in children and parents with Folate receptor autoantibodies as an important biomarker.

Vincent Ramaekers is Professor emeritus in Child Neurology and Director of the Center for Autism at the University Hospital, Liège, Belgium. He is also Professor at the Medical Faculty of Aachen University. His main scientific interests and contributions are novel neurometabolic syndromes, vitamin-responsive disorders and autism spectrum disorders. He contributed to the discovery of the clinical phenotype, aetiology and treatment of a new emerging group of disorders, now known as the “cerebral folate deficiency syndromes”. His research is conducted in close collaboration with Prof Edward Quadros and Jeffrey Sequeira at SUNY Downstate, New York and Prof Beat Thöny at Zurich University.


#brain #neurology #science #folate #metabolism #folicacid #medicine #biomarkers #autoimmune #autoimmunity

This talk was part of Synchrony 2020 Online Symposium - 'From Bench to Biopharma', organised in partnership with UC Davis MIND Institute and CalTech.

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