The Epilepsy Center
Expert Seizure Disorder Diagnosis and Management
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes abnormal brain activity, resulting in unusual behavior, loss of awareness, and seizures. Anyone, child or adult, can be affected, and symptoms can vary wildly.
Using the latest technology for epilepsy monitoring, non-invasive methods of precisely identifying seizure activity, and a multidisciplinary team approach, our epilepsy programs offer patients with difficult-to-manage epilepsy more options for treatment, management and support.
The neurologists and neurosurgeons at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital are among New Jersey's most experienced epilepsy and seizure specialists. With dual roles as physicians and faculty at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a part of Rutgers University, one of the top research institutions in America, our doctors are involved in research and in teaching about all aspects of epilepsy and other neuromuscular conditions.
Our multidisciplinary care team includes experts from neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychology, neuroradiology, pharmacology, psychiatry, and neuropathology. Nurse practitioners and research coordinators are integral to our practice as well.
As a Level 4 Epilepsy Center, We Provide the Highest Level of Epilepsy Care
The Pediatric Epilepsy Program has been accredited as a Level 4 Epilepsy Center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. This means that our experts provide the highest level of medical and surgical care and support for children with epilepsy.
While in the hospital, patients are continuously monitored with electroencephalograms (EEGs) and video recordings. Our neurologists evaluate patients daily and their EEG studies are interpreted by pediatric epileptologists.
Our certified and experienced team members are pleased to offer second opinions when requested.
Diagnostic Testing
Diagnosing epilepsy requires a full evaluation. Your evaluation may include:
- Blood tests
- Neuropsychological tests
- Neurological exam
- Single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT)
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Functional MRI (fMRI)
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Computerized tomography (CT) scan
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- High-density EEG
Conditions We Treat
Our neurologists and neurosurgeons are experienced handling all types of seizure forms, including:
- Benign Rolandic epilepsy
- Childhood absence epilepsy
- Febrile seizures
- Frontal lobe epilepsy
- Hypothalamic hamartoma
- Infantile spasms
- Juvenile absence epilepsy
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- Mitochondrial disorders
- Progressive myoclonic epilepsies
- Rasmussen's syndrome
- Reflex epilepsies
- Ring chromosome 20 syndrome
- Temporal lobe epilepsy