 Epilepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system, specifically the brain. In simple terms, our nervous system is a communications network that controls every thought, emotion, impression, memory, and movement, essentially defining who we are. Nerves throughout the body function like telephone lines, enabling the brain to communicate with every part of the body via electrical signals. In epilepsy, a disorder characterized by transient but recurrent disturbances of brain function that may or may not be associated with impairment or loss of consciousness and abnormal movements or behavior. Close the brain's electrical rhythms have a tendency to become imbalanced, resulting in recurrent seizures.
For some people, the treatment of epilepsy consists of taking a pill once or twice a day for a few years. No seizures, no side effects.
Others take many pills year after year and may move on to other kinds of treatment. Sometimes they work well and sometimes they do not. The dedicated team at the Georgia Neurosurgical Institute will not only will help them find the most effective treatment to stop seizures, but also will help them to live as well as they can while the search continues for new treatments.
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