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Thalamic RNS is a groundbreaking technology that can greatly improve quality of life for kids with the toughest-to-treat epilepsy.

CHLA experts share how new medications, less-invasive surgeries, and neuromodulation are improving care for children with epilepsy.

Experts at CHLA’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center remove a rare brain lesion in a 14-year-old boy.

CHLA neurosurgeon Virendra R. Desai, MD, describes how a surgical procedure can dramatically improve the ability to walk for certain children with cerebral palsy.

Virendra Desai, MD, arrived July 1 and will further strengthen CHLA’s leading care for children with epilepsy and movement disorders.

Rasmussen’s encephalitis imperiled Buddy’s life. Doctors performed a hemispherectomy, disarming his epileptic seizures by separating the two sides of his brain.

Dr. Sucheta Joshi discusses the Wada test, which is used to determine the parts of the brain associated with language and memory prior to epilepsy surgery.

Robotic surgery has improved care for many children undergoing urologic procedures. A CHLA surgeon shares the benefits and challenges.

A medical odyssey with epilepsy led Lucia’s parents to CHLA, where they found the diet therapy treatment that Lucia’s brain needs to thrive.