Galen Breningstall, M.D.

Dr. Breningstall is a Professor of Pediatrics in the division of Clinical Neurosciences and the Clinical Director of Pediatric Neurology.

Dr. Breningstall attended St John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He received his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston where he was honored as the Outstanding Three Year Graduate. After completing his pediatric neurology fellowship training at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Breningstall worked at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia and was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the Temple University School of Medicine. In 1987, Dr. Breningstall returned to Minnesota to work at Park Nicollet Clinic and then in 2000 at Noran Neurological Clinic. In 2005, Dr. Breningstall returned to the University of Minnesota.

His special interests include pediatric epilepsy, metabolic and genetic disorders. He sees patients at the Pediatric Specialty Clinic at the University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview in Minneapolis.

Dr. Breningstall is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and  Neurology, the American Board of Pediatrics, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society. He is an associate editor of Pediatric Neurology.  Dr. Breningstall authored chapters on diseases of ammonia metabolism in three editions and on oxidative metabolism disorders in two editions of Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice.

Stephenson J, Breningstall G, Steer C, Kirkpatrick M, Horrocks I, Nechay A, Zuberi S. Anoxic epileptic seizures: home video recordings of epileptic seizures induced by syncopes. Epileptic Disorders 2004; 6:15-19.

Mao R, Aylsworth RS, Potter N, Wilson WG, Breningstall G, Wick MJ, Babovic-Vuksanovic D, Nance M, Patterson MC, Gomez CM, Snow K. Childhood-onset ataxia: testing for large CAG-repeats in SCA2 and SCA7. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2002; 110:338-345.

Breningstall GN. Mortality in pediatric epilepsy. Pediatric Neurology 2001; 25:9-16.

Pierpont ME, Breningstall GN, Stanley CA, Singh A. Familial carnitine transporter defect: a treatable cause of cardiomyopathy in children. American Heart Journal 2000; 193:S96-S106

Nance MA, Mathias-Hagen V, Breningstall G, Wick MJ, McGlennen RC. Analysis of a very large trinucleotide repeat in a patient with juvenile Huntington’s disease. Neurology 1999; 52:392-394.

Dobyns WB, Guerrini R, Czapansky-Beilman DK, Pierpont MEM, Breningstall G. Yock DH, Bonnani P, Truwit CL. Bilateral periventricular modular heterotopia with mental retardation and syndactyly in boys: A new X-linked mental retardation syndrome. Neurology 1997; 49-1042-1047.

Breningstall GN, Kurachek SC, Fugate JH, Engel AG. Treatment of congenital endplate acetylcholinesterase deficiency by neuromuscular blockade. Journal of Child Neurology 1996; 11:345-346.

Breningstall GN. Breath-holding spells. Pediatric Neurology 1996; 14:91-97.

Breningstall GN. Approach to diagnosis of oxidative metabolism disorders. Pediatric Neurology 1993; 9:81-90.

Stanley CA, DeLeeuw S, Coates PM, Vianey-Liaud C, Divry P, Bonnefont JP, Saudubray JM, Haymond M, Trefz FK, Breningstall GN, Wappner RS, Byrd DJ, Sansaricq C, Tein I, Grover W, Valle D, Rutledge SL, Treem WR. Chronic cardiomyopathy and weakness or acute coma in children with a defect in carnitine uptake. Annals of Neurology 1991; 30:709-716.

Breningstall GN. Carnitine deficiency syndromes. Pediatric Neurology 1990; 6:75-81.

Breningstall GN. Neurologic syndromes in hyperammonemic disorders. Pediatric Neurology 1986; 2:253-262.

Bass JL, Breningstall GN, Swaiman KF. Echocardiographic incidence of cardiac rhabdomyoma in patients with tuberous sclerosis. American Journal of Cardiology 1985; 55:1379-1382.