Epilepsy surgery advancements: Eliminate seizures, improve patients’ memories

Seizures affect many of the brain function such as memory. Over the due course, the uncontrolled seizures can spread over the major areas of the brain and controlling them becomes very difficult. There comes the epilepsy surgery which can eliminate the seizures in some victims which no other treatment can claim nowadays. But the problem is that many people who are in the situation to undergo the surgery fails to receive the surgical evaluation.

When is surgery needed...?

·         Seizures start in one area of the brain (Focal onset epilepsy)

·         Medications are ineffective.

Advancements in epilepsy surgery

Many of the new imaging techniques and the advanced surgical procedures have reduced the risk of complications and other from epilepsy surgery to all-time lows.

·         Stereo electroencephalography-for the better recognition of seizures

·         Responsive neurostimulation-prevent seizures by sending the electrical impulses to the brain

·         Laser interstitial thermal therapy- burn away targeted tissue in the affected area of the brain

·        Closed- loop neurostimulation- implanting a device in the brain that monitors and decodes neural activity, but this procedure is still in the trial.