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The Division of Pediatric Neurology at BOB体育 Shands Children鈥檚 Hospital is distinguished for treating a large population of children with epilepsy. Both the pediatric epilepsy specialists and general pediatric neurologists treat children with first-time seizures and those with straightforward epilepsy syndromes. The pediatric epilepsy program, staffed by specially trained pediatric epileptologists, nurse practitioners, and nurses, provides leading-edge comprehensive therapies for children with intractable epilepsy. Some of the advanced therapeutic options offered by our program include epilepsy surgical evaluations and epilepsy surgery, ketogenic diet regimens, vagal nerve stimulation and familiarity with the range of epilepsy medications, including the newest ones approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Services

• Comprehensive epilepsy evaluation
• Epilepsy surgeries

Diagnostic testing and evaluation

• Electroencephalography (EEG)
• Video EEG (VEEG)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Ictal Signal Photon Emission Computed Tomography (Ictal SPECT)
• PET (performed at outside facility 鈥� and coming soon to BOB体育)
• MEG (performed at outside facility 鈥� and coming soon to BOB体育)
• Neuropsychological evaluation
• Wada Test
• Functional MRI