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Epilepsy Center
Description of Services
The goal of the Epilepsy Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC is to improve the quality of life for children with epilepsy and other seizure disorders and to enable them to develop to their fullest potential.
The Epilepsy Center is a nationally recognized joint effort of Children’s Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Epilepsy Center. Together, a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals from Child Neurology, Neurosurgery, Adult Neurology, Neuro-Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Neurophysiology provide high-quality care for children with all types of seizures and seizure disorders.
In addition, Children’s Epilepsy Center is the only center in the region that provides comprehensive evaluation and surgical treatment options for children with hard-to-manage epilepsy. The Epilepsy Center provides to its patients technologically advanced neuro-imaging resources, including:
- The latest generation magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners
- Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Magnetoenchephalography (MEG)
- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Digital video electroencephalography (video EEG) monitoring suites
With these resources, Children’s neurologists and neurosurgeons sometimes can identify the specific site in a patient’s brain that is generating seizures, determine its role in particular brain functions, and perform an excision of the seizure focus that maximally preserves or even enhances the patient’s level of function.
