Education

Medical School
UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
Pediatrics Residency
UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
Child Neurology Residency
UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
Pediatric Movement Disorders & Neurodegenerative Diseases Fellowship
UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
Health Educator Fellowship
UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
Executive Leadership Institute
UTHealth Houston

Areas of Interest

Clinical Interests

Movement disorders related to cerebral palsy, mitochondrial disorders, NBIA disorders, Huntington’s Disease

DBS (deep brain stimulation) in children

Publications

Olfactory Dysfunction in Huntington’s Disease.

Patino J, Karagas NE, Chandra S, Thakur N, Stimming EF.

J Huntingtons Dis. 2021;10(4):413-422. doi: 10.3233/JHD-210497.

PMID: 34719504Free PMC article.Review.
Rational Design of Novel Therapies for Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration.

Thakur N, Klopstock T, Jackowski S, Kuscer E, Tricta F, Videnovic A, Jinnah HA.

Mov Disord. 2021 Sep;36(9):2005-2016. doi: 10.1002/mds.28642. Epub 2021 May 18.

PMID: 34002881Review.
Psychometric outcome measures in beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN).

Gavazzi F, Pierce SR, Vithayathil J, Cunningham K, Anderson K, McCann J, Moll A, Muirhead K, Sherbini O, Prange E, Dubbs H, Tochen L, Fraser J, Helbig I, Lewin N, Thakur N, Adang LA.

Mol Genet Metab. 2022 Sep-Oct;137(1-2):26-32. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2022.07.009. Epub 2022 Jul 20.

PMID: 35878504
Fosmetpantotenate Randomized Controlled Trial in Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration.

Klopstock T, Videnovic A, Bischoff AT, Bonnet C, Cif L, Comella C, Correa-Vela M, Escolar ML, Fraser JL, Gonzalez V, Hermanowicz N, Jech R, Jinnah HA, Kmiec T, Lang A, Martí MJ, Mercimek-Andrews S, Monduy M, Nimmo GAM, Perez-Dueñas B, Pfeiffer HCV, Planellas L, Roze E, Thakur N, Tochen L, Vanegas-Arroyave N, Zorzi G, Burns C, Greblikas F.

Mov Disord. 2021 Jun;36(6):1342-1352. doi: 10.1002/mds.28392. Epub 2020 Nov 16.

PMID: 33200489 Clinical Trial.
Autologous cellular therapy for cerebral palsy: a randomized, crossover trial.

Cox CS Jr, Juranek J, Kosmach S, Pedroza C, Thakur N, Dempsey A, Rennie K, Scott MC, Jackson M, Kumar A, Aertker B, Caplan H, Triolo F, Savitz SI.

Brain Commun. 2022 May 20;4(3):fcac131. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac131. eCollection 2022.

PMID: 35702731
Reducing opioid usage: a pilot study comparing postoperative selective dorsal rhizotomy protocols.

Pao LP, Zhu L, Tariq S, Hill CA, Yu B, Kendrick M, Jungman M, Miesner EL, Mundluru SN, Hall SL, Bosques G, Thakur N, Shah MN.

J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2019 Nov 22;25(3):305-310. doi: 10.3171/2019.9.PEDS19398. Print 2020 Mar 1.

PMID: 31756707
Clinical spectrum of POLR3-related leukodystrophy caused by biallelic POLR1C pathogenic variants.

Gauquelin L, Cayami FK, Sztriha L, Yoon G, Tran LT, Guerrero K, Hocke F, van Spaendonk RML, Fung EL, D’Arrigo S, Vasco G, Thiffault I, Niyazov DM, Person R, Lewis KS, Wassmer E, Prescott T, Fallon P, McEntagart M, Rankin J, Webster R, Philippi H, van de Warrenburg B, Timmann D, Dixit A, Searle C; DDD Study,; Thakur N, Kruer MC, Sharma S, Vanderver A, Tonduti D, van der Knaap MS, Bertini E, Goizet C, Fribourg S, Wolf NI, Bernard G.

Neurol Genet. 2019 Oct 30;5(6):e369. doi: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000369. eCollection 2019 Dec.

PMID: 32042905