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1 HOW IS INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY TREATED?
1 Surgery may be especially helpful if you have intractable focal or partial epilepsy. During the procedure, the doctor will remove the part of your brain that is starting the seizures. The key to epilepsy surgery is localization of the precise source of the seizure in your brain. Patients under consideration for surgery will usually undergo video-EEG monitoring as an inpatient in order to capture five or six of their typical seizures. Before surgery, doctors will also map the brain, using electrodes to identify brain regions involved in specific functions to make sure that surgery will not interfere with those functions.

Surgery may be especially helpful if you have intractable focal or partial epilepsy. During the procedure, the doctor will remove the part of your brain that is starting the seizures.
The key to epilepsy surgery is localization of the precise source of the seizure in your brain. Patients under consideration for surgery will usually undergo video-EEG monitoring as an inpatient in order to capture five or six of their typical seizures.
Before surgery, doctors will also map the brain, using electrodes to identify brain regions involved in specific functions to make sure that surgery will not interfere with those functions.