Treatments

At CECNJ at Rutgers, we offer a wide range of medical and surgical treatments currently available at any other leading academic epilepsy centers in the world, to provide an individually tailored and optimized care for patients suffering from any types of seizures and epilepsy.

• Dietary (e.g., ketogenic diet)

 

• Medical – antiseizure medications (ASMs)

 

• Resections (removal of diseased portions of the brain involved in seizure production/propagation)
  • Lesionectomy
  • Temporal lobectomy
  • Frontal lobectomy
  • Multi-lobe resection

 

• Disconnection (disconnection of diseased portions of the brain from healthy portions, or disconnection of pathways involved in seizure propagation)
  • Corpus callosotomy
  • Functional hemispherotomy/anatomic hemispherectomy
  • Posterior quadrant disconnection

 

• Neuromodulation (electrical stimulation of seizure networks in the brain via different medical devices to decrease seizure burden)
  • Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS)
  • Responsive neurostimulation (RNS)
  • Deep brain stimulation (DBS)

 

• MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT; destruction of a specific brain areas involved in seizure production/propagation with laser heat under visualization with MRI)

 

• Intracranial electroencephalography
  • Stereo-electroencephalography (stereo-EEG)
  • Surface (cortical) and depth electrodes