We are proud to announce that our team at the Gamma Knife Center, led by Dr. Sisti and Dr. Isaacson, treated their 2700th patient today.  Brain tumors, brain cancer, arteriovenous malformations, trigeminal neuralgia, acoustic neuroma, and other problems have been successfully treated with the Gamma...

Dr. Robert Goodman from our Epilepsy Center was part of a multi-center trial on the use of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery as an alternative to open brain surgery to help Epileptics get rid of their seizures. Results from this trial have been published this year in the February issue of  Annals of Neurol...

Education Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, M.D. 2005 English, Duke University, B.A. 2000 St. Andrews University, Scotland, English 1999 Honors/Awards Dean’s Endowment for Education Scholarship Recipient, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2001-05 Cum Laude, Duke...

The brain is divided into sections called lobes — the frontal, temporal, occipital, and parietal. When the initiation point of recurrent seizures can be traced to the temporal lobe, it is known as temporal lobe epilepsy. Temporal lobe epilepsy may be caused by an injury to the brain, such as a...

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects people of all ages; however, the incidence of seizures is higher in young children (estimated to occur in as many as 4 percent of all children) than in adults. It is unknown why the developing brain is more prone to seizures than the adult brain. When...

The condition called mesial temporal sclerosis is closely related to temporal lobe epilepsy, a type of partial (focal) epilepsy in which the seizure initiation point can be identified within the temporal lobe of the brain. Mesial temporal sclerosis is the loss of neurons and scarring of the deepest...

About 10 percent of all people, approximately eight million Americans, may experience a seizure during their lifetimes. It is estimated that one to three percent of the population has recurrent seizures, or epilepsy, or seizure disorder. Causes Sometimes, a clear cause of epilepsy can be...

Dr. Goodman's largely focuses on the surgical treatment of epilepsy (sometimes associated with brain tumors or cavernous malformations), movement disorders (including Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor and Dystonia), Trigeminal Neuralgia and Hydrocephalus.For the surgical treatment of epilepsy,...

Dr. Ghatan's specialization in Pediatric Neurosurgery encompasses a wide variety of disorders, with special emphasis in Childhood Epilepsy and Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Neurosurgery. Together with specialists in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian...