Epilepsy Clinic

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Approximately 1 in every 285 children has epilepsy, and one-third of these children have seizures that fail to respond well to medications.

The UTHealth Houston Pediatric Epilepsy Program provides comprehensive care to each child with epilepsy. We work with patients and their parents to devise an epilepsy-management plan that can control their seizures and allow them to reach their full potential as individuals.

Our Pediatric Epilepsy Program is accredited by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC (external link)) as a level 4 epilepsy center. Level 4 epilepsy centers have the professional expertise and facilities to provide the highest level of medical and surgical evaluation as well as treatment for patients with complex epilepsy.

Together with the staff and specialists at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital (external link), we offer the most advanced techniques for epilepsy diagnosis and treatment, including:

a dedicated six-bed pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit with 24/7 video-EEG monitoring and specialist coverage
3 Tesla MRI
Functional MRI
Magnetoencephalogram (MEG)
PET scan
SPECT scan
WADA testing
Neuropsychological testing

Treatment options are not limited to drug therapy and may include ketogenic diet, focal cortical resection, hemispherotomy, corpus callosotomy, neuromodulation (VNS, DBS, RNS), and laser interstitial thermal therapy (LiTT or laser ablation). Our program also offers access to investigational and emerging therapies through clinical trials and other research studies.

The UTHealth Houston Pediatric Epilepsy team includes neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neuropsychologists, neuropathologists and other highly trained, proficient staff who provide patient-centered, compassionate care patients can count on during their epilepsy journey.