What are the surgical treatments for epilepsy?
With regards to the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, in cases where the medical treatment with these drugs are not getting results and the seizures persist, then doctors will oftentimes recommend brain surgery as a surgical treatment for epilepsy. The most common brain surgery is a temporal lobectomy. This is where either a portion of the temporal lobe, in most cases it’s that medial portion of the temporal lobe that contains the hippocampus and the amygdale, to which this is removed. This is done usually on one side only; it’s done on the side to spare the person from losing any speech skills. Now, there are a few other kinds of surgeries that can be done. In young children, an entire hemisphere is removed, a so-called hemispherectomy. For some reason, with such a large amount of brain tissue removed, these young children are able to grow up and are reasonably free from seizures. A type of surgery that had been done in the past, a corpus callosotomy, where the corpus callosum is s
