Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a common neurologic disorder that often begins in childhood.  Two or more unprovoked seizures, is the definition of epilepsy. Treating seizures is one component of caring for children with disorder.  Epilepsy is often accompanied by higher rates of learning differences, attentional issues and behavior problems that also require treatment.
 
The Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is dedicated to treating children with seizures.  We have a team of pediatric epileptologists (neurologists specializing in the treatment of epilepsy and seizure disorders), neurosurgeons, registered EEG technologists, neuroradiologists, neuropsychologist and dietitians that all are experts in the care of children with epilepsy.  

Our group focuses on identifying the epilepsy cause, treating seizures with the least side effects possible and partnering with families and other care givers to provide the very best in epilepsy care.

We are the first hospital in Northern California to offer the ROSA™ robotized surgical assistant for 3-D mapping for epilepsy. ROSA’s™ computer brain guides its robotic arm to facilitate mapping, which helps determine the best trajectory to minimize damage to adjacent brain tissue. Our surgeons can also rely on the ROSA to manipulate instruments as thin as a needle during minimally invasive brain surgery, and to decipher the epileptic network and seizure focus in a child with medically refractory seizures.