Surgery for Epilepsy Treatment

Timothy Deer, President of the International Neuromodulation Society (INS), on how the attending global neuromodulation community at INS 2019 is set to experience a meaningful and unforgettable event. The International Neuromodulation Society’s 14th World Congress will be held in Sydney, Australia on 25–30 May 2019. Source: This video was produced by the INS and is shared […]

Dr. Wei Hu, a Clinical Movement Disorders Fellow from the Neurology Department at the University of Florida and formerly at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, gives hope in his article appearing in the November 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, to patients with refractory Tourrette syndrome.

When medication is not enough to treat epilepsy sometimes surgery can be a good choice for treatment. While the more common methods are also invasive in many ways there are newer procedures being developed that require less recovery time.