Thio Lab

Kwee Liu Lin Thio, MD, PhD

The research interests of Liu-Lin Thio, MD, PhD, are cellular neurophysiology, inhibitory glycine receptors and ketogenic diet. He holds clinic weekly, is consultant pediatric epileptologist for the Pediatric Cerebral Palsy Center and serves on the Pharmaceutical, Diagnostics and Therapeutics Subcommittee at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Principal investigator

Kwee  Liu Lin  Thio, MD

Kwee Liu Lin Thio, MD

Professor of Neurology
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Center


  Thio lab

 
Top areas of pediatric care: ketogenic diet, glucose transporter 1 deficiency syndrome, pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency

Recent publications

  • Prevalence of Suicidality in Adolescents with Newly Diagnosed Focal Epilepsy at Diagnosis and over the Following 36 MonthsGreenwood, H. T., French, J., Ferrer, M., Jandhyala, N., Thio, L. L., Dlugos, D. J., Park, K. L. & Kanner, A. M., Jun 4 2024, In: Neurology. 103, 1, e209397.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Unrecognized Focal Nonmotor Seizures in Adolescents Presenting to Emergency Departmentsfor Human Epilepsy Project Investigators, Jandhyala, N., Ferrer, M., Pellinen, J., Greenwood, H. T., Dlugos, D. J., Park, K. L., Thio, L. L. & French, J., May 1 2024, In: Neurology. 102, 10, e209389.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • The role of copy number variants in the genetic architecture of common familial epilepsiesEpi4K Consortium, Almanza Fuerte, E. P., Nguyen, J., Mehaffey, M., Sulovari, A., Wang, T., Galey, M., Miller, D. E., Eichler, E. E., Mefford, H. C., Abou-Khalil, B., Afawi, Z. A., Allen, A. S., Amrom, D., Andermann, E., Bautista, J. F., Bellows, S. T., Berkovic, S. F., Bluvstein, J. & Boro, A. & 74 others, Burgess, R., Cascino, G. D., Chung, S. K., Consalvo, D., Cossette, P., Crompton, D. E., Crumrine, P., Curtis, S. W., Delanty, N., Devinsky, O., Dlugos, D., Ellis, C. A., Epstein, M. P., Fiol, […]
  • Subcutaneous deuterated substrate administration in mice: An alternative to tail vein infusionSong, K. H., Ge, X., Engelbach, J. A., Thio, L. L., Neil, J. J., Ackerman, J. J. H. & Garbow, J. R., Feb 2024, In: Magnetic resonance in medicine. 91, 2, p. 681-686 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • GWAS meta-analysis of over 29,000 people with epilepsy identifies 26 risk loci and subtype-specific genetic architectureInternational League Against Epilepsy Consortium on Complex Epilepsies, Stevelink, R., Campbell, C., Chen, S., Abou-Khalil, B., Adesoji, O. M., Afawi, Z., Amadori, E., Anderson, A., Anderson, J., Andrade, D. M., Annesi, G., Auce, P., Avbersek, A., Bahlo, M., Baker, M. D., Balagura, G., Balestrini, S., Barba, C. & Barboza, K. & 181 others, Bartolomei, F., Bast, T., Baum, L., Baumgartner, T., Baykan, B., Bebek, N., Becker, A. J., Becker, F., Bennett, C. A., Berghuis, B., Berkovic, S. F., Beydoun, A., Bianchini, C., Bisulli, F., Blatt, […]