Epilepsy Surgery
Epilepsy Surgery is internationally recognized as a leader in innovative surgery for intracerebral diseases associated with medically intractable epilepsy. This multidisciplinary program includes neurosurgery, neurology, neuropsychology, neuro-radiology and neuropathology within outpatient facilities a six-bed adult epilepsy monitoring unit a two-bed pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit, and a technologically advanced operating suite. Patients worldwide are evaluated in phases in order to precisely determine concordance of electrophysiology, cognitive testing, history, physical and neurological examination, with advanced imaging using MRI, SPECT and PET techniques. The state-of-the-art operating room suite contains advanced digitized imaging, computerized stereotaxy and sophisticated electrophysiology in order to perform optimal, yet safe, resections, and to place intracranial electrodes for those patients who need invasive electrophysiological confirmation of an epileptogenic region. This Yale program has been instrumental in developing many of the surgical procedures that are currently widely accepted for epilepsy.
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Gerrard, Jason Lee, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Section Chief, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery | (203) 785-4891 Appts
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Spencer, Dennis Dee, MD | Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery; Chair, Department of Neurosurgery; Director, Epilepsy Surgery Program; Director, Pituitary Tumor Program | (203) 785-4891 Appts
(203) 785-2043 Fax |
