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2. Epilepsy surgery - Wikipedia

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   Epilepsy surgery involves a neurosurgical procedure where an area of the brain involved in seizures is either resected, ablated, disconnected or stimulated. [1] The goal is to eliminate seizures or significantly reduce seizure burden. Approximately 60% of all people with epilepsy (0.4% of the population of industrialized countries) have focal ...

3. Corpus callosotomy - Wikipedia

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   Corpus callosum. A corpus callosotomy (/ kəˈlɔːs (ə) təmiː /) is a palliative surgical procedure for the treatment of medically refractory epilepsy. [1] The procedure was first performed in 1940 by William P. van Wagenen. [2] In this procedure, the corpus callosum is cut through, in an effort to limit the spread of epileptic activity ...

4. Epilepsy - Wikipedia

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   Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. [10] An epileptic seizure is the clinical manifestation of an abnormal, excessive, and synchronized electrical discharge in the neurons. [1] The occurrence of two or more unprovoked seizures defines epilepsy. [11]

5. Vagus nerve stimulation - Wikipedia

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   Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a medical treatment that involves delivering electrical impulses to the vagus nerve. It is used as an add-on treatment for certain types of intractable epilepsy, cluster headaches, treatment-resistant depression and stroke rehabilitation.

6. Hemispherectomy - Wikipedia

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   Hemispherectomy is a surgery that is performed by a neurosurgeon where an unhealthy hemisphere of the brain is disconnected or removed. There are two types of hemispherectomy. Functional hemispherectomy refers to when the diseased brain is simply disconnected so that it can no longer send signals to the rest of the brain and body.

7. Temporal lobe epilepsy - Wikipedia

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   Temporal lobe in green. In the field of neurology, temporal lobe epilepsy is an enduring brain disorder that causes unprovoked seizures from the temporal lobe. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common type of focal onset epilepsy among adults. [1] Seizure symptoms and behavior distinguish seizures arising from the medial temporal lobe from ...