When should you consider epilepsy surgery for your child’s rare genetic epilepsy? Join Dr. Ahmad Marashly, Medical Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Monika Jones, founder and Executive Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Alliance (and rare epilepsy mom) to learn about:
– an overview of surgery
– the growing body of medical literature that supports brain surgery or neuromodulation for both palliative and sometimes curative surgery
–the genetic disorders that cause refractory epilepsy including ion channel dysfunction, sodium channel mutations. mTOR pathway and other conditions.