brain surgery

When I had my gamma knife surgery done in 2004, I was the first person in WI to have it for temporal lobe epilepsy. As far as my neurosurgeon knows, I'm still the only one to have it that has other health problems like diabetes, 2 heart attacks, bypass surgery and a methicillin resistant staph...

Hello, I have a 14 year old son, that has intractable epilepsy, and is going into the hospital in Jan, to see if he is a surgery canidate. Has anyone here had the procedure? Would you reccommend it? Any iformation would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much. Alicia

Hi everyone, I'm new to this site. I've had temporal lobe epilepsy since I was 9 months old. My seizures somewhat disappeared (as far as I know) from age 2 to 16. I then had simple partial seizures which never could be controlled and therefor had surgery at 23. It did not work. It seemed to have...

Here's a snippet of an interesting news story: Advances in Brain Imaging for Epilepsy