The Epilepsy Center

The Epilepsy Center of Cohen Children's Medical Center provides comprehensive care for children diagnosed with epilepsy and seizure disorders.

Our services include:

• Diagnostic testing
• Ambulatory EEG
• Long term inpatient and outpatient EEG monitoring
   

Multidisciplinary outpatient services and specialized treatments, including:

• Anti-epileptic drug therapy
• Ketogenic diet
• Investigational antiepileptic drugs
• Multidisciplinary evaluation for the surgical treatment of epilepsy in conjunction with neurosurgery
   

Long-term inpatient video-EEG monitoring

Children are admitted to the Cohen Children's Medical Center for continuous video-EEG monitoring. Computers detect and analyze seizures which are missed by observers. This procedure is useful in:

• Distinguishing seizures from non-epileptic events such as abnormal movements and tics
• Providing for accurate classification of seizures that permit specific treatment
• Determining the site of origin of seizures in patients who may be candidates for surgical treatment
   

Long-term ambulatory homebound EEG

24 hour, homebound EEG monitoring is available to rule out or to further analyze seizures.