Neurosciences

Epilepsy & Functional Neurosurgery

UM Health-West’s Epilepsy Clinic has a dedicated team specialized in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy.

Services Provided:

• Diagnosis of seizures or epilepsy and seizure mimics
• Management of patients with first time seizure or recurrent seizures
• Management of epilepsy in women and during pregnancy
• Management of VNS (vagus nerve stimulator), a device which may lessen the seizures burden in patients with refractory/difficult to treat seizures

Diagnostic Testing Offered

• Outpatient routine, extended and ambulatory electroencephalography studies (EEGs)
• Inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit with 24/7 neuromonitoring technologist and specially trained nursing staff
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with epilepsy protocol

Functional Neurosurgery Services

• Chronic Spine/Nerve Pain
  • Spinal cord stimulation
  • Occipital nerve stimulation
  • DREZ lesioning
• Spasticity
  • Intrathecal baclofen pump
• Epilepsy – seizures
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation
  • Responsive Nerve Stimulation
  • Temporal lobe resection
  • Depth electrode/SEEG monitoring
  • Subdural grid placement
• Facial Pain
  • Microvascular decompression
  • Trigeminal rhizolysis
  • Trigeminal balloon compression

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