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About Our Epilepsy Center
The Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center (CCEC) is dedicated to the care of people with epilepsy. The Center offers state-of-the-art medical and surgical treatment for the management of epilepsy in adults and children. The Center's goal is to help patients gain control of seizures and optimize their quality of life.
 A full complement of advanced diagnostic tests is available for diagnosis, seizure classification, and evaluation for surgical treatment of epilepsy. The center's inpatient Epilepsy Monitoring Unit combines video and EEG monitoring of patients to determine epilepsy type, number and location of seizures. Results of the monitoring tests are supplemented by other diagnostic procedures, including MRI, SPECT, neuropsychological tests, Wada test, and PET scanning. Surgical treatments included temporal lobe resection, extratemporal cortical resection, and corpus callosal section. Patients benefit from the intervention of an experienced multidisciplinary team that includes neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, EEG technologists, nurse practitioners, neuropsychologists and psychiatrists. Any patient who is not responding to medical therapy is appropriate for referral to the CCEC. Patients may be referred by a physician or self referred.
We invite you to explore and learn about the Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
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