Epilepsy Surgery: Paradigm Shifts, An Issue of Neurosurgery Clinics of North America (Clinics: Surgery, Volume 35-1)

In this issue of Neurosurgery Clinics, guest editors Drs. Jimmy Yang and R. Mark Richardson bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Epilepsy Surgery: Paradigm Shifts. Top experts in the field explore the underutilization of epilepsy surgery as a public health crisis, and recent paradigm shifts in how epilepsy surgery is conceptualized that may help bring significant improvement to greater numbers of people with drug-resistant epilepsy.

Key Features

• Contains 16 relevant, practice-oriented topics, including pediatric neurostimulation and practice evolution; brain stimulation in pediatric generalized epilepsy; imaging and SEEG functional networks to guide epilepsy surgery; sensing-enabled deep brain stimulation in epilepsy; thalamic stimulation to prevent impaired consciousness; gene therapy for epilepsy; and more.
• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on paradigm shifts in epilepsy surgery, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Author Information

Edited by Jimmy Yang, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center; Mark R. Richardson, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Dean, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA Pappas Associate Professor of Neurosciences, Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Director of Functional Neurosurgery, Massachusetts, General Hospital.

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