A new hope for surgical epilepsy patients: a new technique increases the chance of seizure freedom and may spare patients risks and invasive procedures

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For Immediate Release: June, 14, 2018

A new hope for surgical epilepsy patients:  a new technique increases the chance of complete seizure freedom and may spare the patients, risks and invasive procedures

 

New Haven, Connecticut. A recent study published in JAMA Neurologyon June 11, 2018 showed that

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A Brain Surgery Frees a Patient from Seizures

Date 11/17/16

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When the medication prescribed to treat her epilepsy didn’t work, she sought the advice of Yale Medicine neurosurgeon Dennis Spencer, MD, who suggested a brain surgery that would implant electrodes to target the site of the seizure. 

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