Diagnosing Epilepsy

The Epilepsy Center at Children’s Hospital’s Brain Care Institute provides its patients technologically advanced neuro imaging resources, including:

By utilizing these resources, our neurologists and neurosurgeons often can identify the specific site in a child’s brain that is generating the seizures, determine its role in particular brain functions, and remove the seizure focus that maximally preserves or even enhances the patient’s level of function.

Learn more about our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and the Epilepsy Foundation of Western/Central PA.