Deep Brain Stimulation and Epilepsy

Deep brain stimulation has been used effectively for many years in patients suffering from Parkinson's disease. Now, neurologists and neurosurgeons are using electric pulse generators (somewhat like a cardiac pacemaker) to block abnormal activity, i.e. epileptic fits. With promising research results that show how electric pulses implanted deep in the brain can affect neurocircuitry and help stop oncoming seizures, the author and his team of contributors have summarized all the available literature into one volume. Deep Brain Stimulation and Epilepsy should provide the epileptologist and neurosurgeon with a solid background about deep brain stimulation and its application to epilepsy.