Epilepsy Center
Providing consultative epilepsy evaluation and treatment.
What We Do
The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Epilepsy Center offers adult and pediatric multidisciplinary epilepsy clinics that can help evaluate and manage epilepsy and seizures. Our providers can provide guidance on the latest surgical treatment options, such as laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), for epilepsy and offer care in a supportive environment.
Our goal is to help patients manage the disease to live richer and fuller lives.
Who We Are
The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Epilepsy Center offers clinical, research, and educational services to patients with epilepsy.
Our Epilepsy Center focuses on providing consultative epilepsy evaluation and treatment of patients. State-of-the art diagnostic facilities like our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, procedures including intracranial electrode implantation and EEGs, as well as cortical stimulation studies, are just part of the full range of structural and functional imaging tests we offer.
Following treatment, patients typically return to their primary neurologist for long-term treatment and follow-up.
Treatments We Offer
- Outpatient Ambulatory Epilepsy Monitoring (AEM)
- Inpatient Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU)
- Continuous EEG/long-term monitoring (LTM)
- Epilepsy surgery
- Surgical resection
- Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT)
- Corpus callosotomy
- Responsive neurostimulation (RNS)
- Deep brain stimulation
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)
- Advanced imaging
- Medication management
- Ketogenic diet therapy
Minimally Invasive Epilepsy Treatments
Every year, about 150,000 Americans are diagnosed with epilepsy, a central nervous system disorder that causes seizures. With treatment, about 70 percent of people with epilepsy can go into remission. Progress in epilepsy testing and new minimally invasive surgical treatments are more effective than ever before.
Expert Epilepsy Care
From diagnosis to treatment, the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Epilepsy Center cares for epilepsy patients of all ages.
Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
Our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit is a dedicated unit with six private rooms to evaluate epilepsy patients. The EMU’s specially trained medical, nursing, and technical personnel monitor patients 24 hours a day via state-of-the-art computer-based monitoring equipment.
NAEC Level 4 Epilepsy Center
The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Epilepsy Center provides state-of-the-art care for adults who have seizures. Our Level 4 center, active since 2002, helps patients throughout the region.
Level 4 is the highest level awarded by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC). This accreditation means we help people from around the region and across the country, giving them the most up-to-date diagnoses and therapies for epilepsy.
Continuous EEG / Long-term Monitoring
Long-term monitoring (LTM) for epilepsy refers to a continuous EEG (cEEG) study that records a patient’s mental activity and cerebral function over an extended period. Our WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Epilepsy specialists are available to review EEGs and continuous EEGs 24 hours a day.
Clinical Leadership
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Aman Dabir
Office hours: Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm
Referring Providers
Our faculty is committed to providing immediate consultations and care for your patients. For physician-to-physician consultations, or to refer your patient, please visit the WVU Medicine Provider Hub for referral forms and more or call our Medical Access Referral Systems (MARS) at 800-982-6277.
Clinical Research
To ensure we provide our patients with the most current medical and surgical techniques available anywhere in the world, WVU leads and/or participates in many clinical trials.