Epilepsy Program

• Pharmacological Management - use of the most effective anti-seizure medications to control seizures.

• Experimental Medications - interested families may be able to enroll in clinical studies that test the newest experimental anti-seizure medications for pediatric epilepsy.

• Ketogenic Diet - a high fat, low carbohydrate diet that facilitates the body's production of its own natural anticonvulsants, ketones.

• Epilepsy Surgery - removal of the brain tissue where an epileptic seizure starts.

• Vagal Nerve Stimulator - a surgically placed small pacemaker (under the skin below the collarbone) that delivers a small burst of electrical energy to the vagal nerve (a nerve in the neck) to reduce seizures in children with intractable epilepsy.

Although many children's epileptic seizures can be managed on an outpatient basis, Children's offers inpatient management (located on 9-North) when necessary for seizure control or for surgical management.

Outpatient Services

Children's outpatient epilepsy services are provided at our Boston campus on the 9th floor of the Fegan Building, and in the following communities throughout Greater Boston: