Dr. Dawn Lammert, an epilepsy genetics fellow at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, discusses her research titled Astrocytic Neurotransmitter Metabolism after Neonatal Brain Injury from Intermittent Hypoxia, presented during the 15th annual Hershey Conference on Developmental Brain Injury. Preterm birth affects half a million infants in the United States each year. As neonatal intensive care has improved, mortality has decreased. Although these infants survive, they remain at risk for neurocognitive deficits, neurobehavioral problems and epilepsy. In this study, Dr. Lammert and Dr. Joseph Scafidi’s lab explore how intermittent hypoxia affects brain neurotransmitter metabolism. Learn more at https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hershey. #researchsaveschildren #johnshopkinsmedicine #neonatalbraininjury #intermittenthypoxia