Recent Findings
● the characterization of several new forms of polymicrogyria, a developmental brain malformation in which the surface of the brain is not folded properly
●the identification of a singular and unexpected form of dyslexia in patients with periventricular heterotopia, a malformation in which nodules of misplaced gray matter are present in the brain
● the description of important white matter abnormalities in brain malformations that have historically been understood and named based on their gray matter appearance
● the discovery of abnormal sleep patterns on electrical brain wave testing (EEG) in patients with malformations of the cerebral cortex
