The Rutgers Health Epilepsy Neurosurgery program offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary management of the intractable focal seizures, especially complex partial seizures.

An intractable focal seizure is a seizure that may affect only one hemisphere of the brain (which does not respond to treatment). A partial complex seizure often starts in a single area of the brain, usually in the temporal lobe.

We provide therapy using such techniques as:

• Anatomic mapping with stereoangiography (an x-ray study of the blood vessels)
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), a nuclear medicine imaging technique that provides 3D information.

We often combine these techniques with precise tests, including electrophysiologic studies (measuring electrical properties of cells and tissue).

Our thorough evaluation helps us initiate surgery that accurately pinpoints an area for the removal of tissue that may help cause epilepsy. It also helps to preserve adjacent areas. Such surgery helps patients become generally seizure-free or no longer require medication.

In addition to surgery, our practice also offers monitoring and neuropsychological testing.

Physicians with our program are on the faculty of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a part of Rutgers University, one of the top research institutions in America. Our doctors are active in research and in teaching about all aspects of epilepsy and neurosurgery, and each brings life-changing knowledge from the classroom to the exam room.

If you or a loved one seeks surgical treatment for epilepsy, make an appointment with the Rutgers Health Epilepsy Neurosurgery program.