The Epilepsy Comprehensive Care Center – part of the Nicklaus
Children’s Neuroscience Institute – is a world-recognized leader
in the diagnosis, as well as medical and surgical treatment of
pediatric epilepsy, offering treatment options that are available
at only a handful of centers worldwide. For more than 40 years,
Nicklaus Children’s has been the pediatric care leader for
children with a vast array of concerns, from common conditions
to the most medically complex cases.
Other highlights:
• Pioneered a cerebral stimulation technique that is now used throughout
the world to accurately locate critical brain functions in children to maximize
outcomes and safety of epilepsy and brain tumor surgery
• Among the first in the nation to use minimally invasive lasers to remove
seizure-causing brain tissue
• Among the first in the nation to implant neuromodulation devices (similar
to a pacemaker) to control seizures in children
• The world’s first to use magnetic-resonance guided focused ultrasound –
a form of incisionless surgery – to ablate centrally located brain lesions
causing seizures in young patients
