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Treatments and Interventions 

Like many diseases, treatment should be done as early as possible. 70% of cases with epilepsy can be controlled with modern medicine.

  • Resective Surgery

    • Most common

    • Removes the area of the brain that causes the patient's seizures

  • Disconnection Surgery

    • Less common

    • Interrupts nerve pathways that allows seizures to spread

    • Thought of as providing relief but not a cure

  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation

    • Prevents seizures by sending regular, mild pulses of electrical energy to the brain via the vagus nerve

      • Similar to a pacemaker

    • Placed under the skin on the chest wall and a wire runs from it to the vagus nerve in the neck

    • Surgery required for implantation

  • Responsive neurostimulation

    • First device to provide responsive neurostimulation, automatically monitoring brain signals and providing stimulation to abnormal electrical events just when it is needed

    • Placed on the scalp within the skull

    • For those 18 and older

  •  Approach to help control seizures in children, usually in conjunction with seizure medications

  • Ketogenic diet

    • Special high fat, low carb diet

    • Usually recommended for children whose seizures have not responded to several different medications

Surgery
Devices
Special Diets

(Epilepsy)

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