The Rutgers Health Pediatric Epilepsy program specializes in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of children with seizures and epilepsy. We evaluate children from birth to age 21 who experience seizures, and we provide ongoing support for families. We diagnose patients using electroencephalography (EEG), video EEG services, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies, and genetic testing. Our professionals also offer second opinions upon request.

Children may develop seizures at any age due to an injury, such as head trauma, or due to a genetic tendency. Repeated seizures are known as epilepsy. Epilepsy can be focal (coming from one part of the brain) or generalized (involving all parts of the brain at the same time). Treatment for different types of epilepsy may include changes in diet, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), surgery, or medications and/or infusions such as adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), vigabatrin, prednisone, and IVIg.

Our program conducts elective inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory EEG monitoring, as well as a 24-hour inpatient long-term video EEG monitoring to assist in epilepsy diagnosis and management. We partner with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ for monitoring and care. Families and patients receive daily evaluation reports from our inpatient child neurology service, and their EEG studies are interpreted by our pediatric epileptologists.

Physicians from 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 pediatric medicine, and each brings leading-edge knowledge from the classroom to the exam room.

If you are seeking expert evaluation and treatment for children that have neurological conditions or are facing neurodevelopmental disabilities, please make an appointment with the Rutgers Health Pediatric Epilepsy program today.