Language mapping is often used to protect language functions during surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy or brain tumors. Language mapping is done during surgery while the patient is awake and interactive.  This is possible because the brain itself does not have pain receptors. The patient is...

"All I really wanted was to be able to drive," Mike Hickey reflects when asked why he went in for Epilepsy Surgery.  He had gotten his drivers license at 16 just like all his friends, "so I knew what it was like," says Mike.  All that was lost, however when an unexpected seizure caused him to...

According to Dr, Robert R. Goodman from the Epilepsy Center, there is a surgical cure for certain types of epilepsy that many patients and their neurologists don't know about.  This is particularly true, he says, in cases of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy . Epilepsy is a general term for a group of...

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...

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...