Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy [Neurosurgery]

Name: Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy [Neurosurgery]
Uploaded: 2021-06-21T00:00:00+00:00
Description: With more than 50 years history leading innovations in epilepsy, backed by intense scientific and clinical research, Yale Medicine’s Epilepsy & Seizures Program, along with our Pediatric Epilepsy Program, offers advanced treatment for the most complex epilepsy cases in children and adults. Learn more about DBS for patients with epilepsy here.

“Now, just about every patient with medication refractory epilepsy has a treatment option,” says Yale Medicine neurosurgeon Eyiyemisi Damisah, MD in discussing the use of Deep Brain Stimulation for seizure control in patients who are not candidates for resective surgery. With more than 50 years history leading innovations in epilepsy, backed by intense scientific and clinical research, Yale Medicine’s Epilepsy & Seizures Program, along with our Pediatric Epilepsy Program, offers advanced treatment for the most complex epilepsy cases in children and adults. Learn more about DBS for patients with epilepsy here.

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Eyiyemisi Damisah, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery, Epilepsy & Seizures, Pediatric Epilepsy

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Franklin Brown, PhD, ABPP

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Chief, Division of Neuropsychology

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