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Epilepsy

Why Choose Us for Your Child's Care

• The epilepsy and functional neurosurgery program of Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is one of the most active on the East Coast, involving close collaboration between pediatric neurosurgeons and pediatric neurologists to treat all types of seizure disorders.
• The Hospital's Pediatric Epilepsy Center draws on the close collaboration between pediatric neurologists and pediatric neurosurgeons, as well as the resources of the adult neurology department of NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia to treat all types of seizure disorders. It is one of the most active pediatric epilepsy programs on the East Coast and is a major referral program for the treatment of intractable seizures.
• The Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center can help patients who have tried at least two different drug treatments without success. Here patients benefit from the intervention of an experienced multidisciplinary team that includes epileptologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, EEG technologists, nurse practitioners, neuropsychologists and psychiatrists.
• Our six-bed inpatient Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, which serves nearly 400 patients a year, enables us to perform the testing necessary to confirm a diagnosis and determine appropriate medical management. Here patients are monitored by video-electroencephalography (EEG), with access to imaging studies that include high-resolution MRI, ictal single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron emission tomography (PET).
• The Specialty Care Center for Adolescents and Teens with Epilepsy provides care for patients who have recurrent seizures that have not responded to treatment with medications. The Center offers a full complement of advanced procedures for diagnosis and seizure classification in order to develop a definitive diagnosis and a treatment plan to maximize control of the seizures.