Overview

The Nebraska Medical Center is home to a Comprehensive Epilepsy Center serving Nebraska and the surrounding region and is providing new hope and opportunities to people with epilepsy. The Center is led by a trained epileptologist, Sanjay Singh, M.D., and employs a comprehensive four-phase monitoring and treatment program using some of the most advanced diagnostic equipment available. This sophisticated technology enables our doctors to accurately pinpoint the site of a seizure and type of epilepsy.

For hundreds of years, epilepsy was once a condition that was difficult to treat and that few physicians clearly understood. Today, however, thanks to medical advancements, many of the 2.3 million people affected by epilepsy, are treated successfully and live normal and productive lives. In Nebraska, approximately 20,000 people are affected by epilepsy. About 6,000 of these individuals have intractable epilepsy, the most difficult to treat, and require specialized care.

The Nebraska Epilepsy Center offers several new and promising treatment options that are helping patients with even the most difficult to treat epilepsy cases. Many of these patients do not respond well to medications and may be considered candidates for resective surgery or vagal nerve stimulation. Both procedures offer new hope to patients who in the past, had no options past medications.

Epilepsy Team