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The New Onset Seizure Clinic, part of Norton Children’s Neuroscience Institute, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine, is the leading provider of seizure evaluation in children from Louisville, Kentucky, and Southern Indiana. We’ll determine the cause of your child’s seizure and whether more seizures are likely to occur.
Our board-certified and fellowship-trained team of neurologists and neurosurgeons use state-of-the-art diagnostic tools to pinpoint your child’s diagnosis. It’s one reason Norton Children’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center has held the highest rating available from the National Association of Epilepsy Centers since 2013.
Our specialists use their skills and experience to create a customized treatment plan that minimizes side effects, so your child can get back to being a kid again.
At our New Onset Seizure Clinic, we discuss what type of seizure may have occurred, what may have caused the seizure and risk factors for additional seizures in the future.
Our team performs routine outpatient EEGs at several locations in Louisville. During this painless 20- to 40-minute procedure, 20 electrodes are placed on the scalp to monitor brainwaves. The information enables team members to better define the seizures. The team may obtain long-term EEG monitoring by video, which typically captures seizures.
Our team also may perform intracranial EEG monitoring by placing electrodes on the surface of the brain and inside the brain tissue. This procedure pinpoints where seizures begin in the brain. Norton Children’s Hospital offers state-of-the-art stereo EEG for this kind of monitoring.
This specialized testing helps locate certain functions of the brain, such as language and memory. A neuropsychologist performs this test.
Additional tests for locating language or memory in the brain include a Wada test (named for Juan Wada, M.D., who first performed it). This involves putting one area of the brain “to sleep” so that another area of the brain can be tested.
A first-time seizure in a child can be scary.
The neurologists and other specialists at Norton Children’s Neuroscience Institute, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine, are skilled at determining the precise cause of your child’s first seizure and whether more are likely.
Our board-certified and fellowship-trained team of neurologists and neurosurgeons use state-of-the-art diagnostic tools along with their extensive experience to pinpoint a diagnosis.
It’s one reason Norton Children’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center has held the highest rating available from the National Association of Epilepsy Centers since 2013.
Our specialists use their skills and experience to create a customized treatment plan after a child’s first seizure to help your child can get back to being a kid again. We’ll evaluate what type of seizure may have occurred, what may have caused the seizure and risk factors for future seizures.
A child’s first seizure may lead to an epilepsy diagnosis, but not always.
After a child’s first seizure, it’s not uncommon to perform routine outpatient electroencephalography (EEG). During this painless 20- to 40-minute procedure, 20 electrodes are placed on the scalp to monitor brainwaves. The information enables team members to better define the seizures. The team may obtain long-term EEG monitoring by video, which typically captures any seizures.
A Wada test may be performed if neuropsychological testing and fMRI do not provide enough information.