Epilepsy

Treatment in Minnesota

All diagnosis and treatment options for epilepsy described in these pages are available at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

Each year, epilepsy specialists at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota diagnose and coordinate care for more than 3,000 children and adults with epilepsy. A full range of treatment options is available to all patients. A unique treatment and management plan is created for each patient.

Many patients control their seizures with medication. A patient who has seizures that start in one part of the brain, however, may be a candidate for epilepsy surgery. Surgery involves removal of that part of the brain causing the seizures.

Surgery for epilepsy has been performed at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for 40 years. More than 700 patients each year are evaluated in the adult and pediatric inpatient video-EEG epilepsy monitoring units.

Innovations developed at Mayo Clinic, including SISCOM imaging technology, have led to improvements in the ability to pinpoint seizure onset. SISCOM allows surgeons to target specific hot spots in the brain for surgery. Awake brain surgery also allows surgeons to pinpoint seizure hot spots without damage to the surrounding brain tissue.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is ranked No. 1 in Neurology & Neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings.

Treatment Team

Finding the precise location of seizure onset is challenging and requires the skills of experts in several specialties. At Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, the team may include highly trained experts from Neurology, Neuroradiology, Child and Adolescent Neurology, Nuclear Medicine, Neuropsychology, and Neurosurgery.

Specialists at Mayo Clinic see many patients each year and maintain a high degree of skill in the evaluation and treatment of patients with epilepsy.

Appointments

For appointments or more information, call 507-284-8008 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Central time Monday through Friday or complete an online request form.