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Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center - Surgical Division
This is a multi-disciplinary program for epilepsy with one of the largest
referral bases and clinical volumes in the country, providing a variety
of surgical and non-surgical approaches to epilepsy. Within the past year,
eighty-nine epilepsy surgical cases have been performed. Residents are
exposed to the essential elements of seizure management, reading and interpreting
EEGs, deciding on medical versus surgical management and operative approaches
to epilepsy.
More patients with epilepsy disorders are treated at Jefferson than all
other programs in Philadelphia combined. The current research interests
of this program include clinical trials for antiepileptic drugs, nerve
stimulation and deep brain stimulation as a treatment for seizures, mathematical
models of neural activity, investigations on genetics of and gene therapy
for epilepsy, and biochemistry of receptors and neurotransmitters implicated
in the pathogenesis of epilepsy.
You may want to read about our ongoing clinical research in epilepsy surgery.
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