WHAT WE DO

The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Epilepsy Center offers adult, pediatric, and multi-disciplinary epilepsy clinics that can help evaluate and manage epilepsy and seizures. Our providers can provide guidance on the latest surgical treatment options for epilepsy and offer care in a supportive environment.

Our goal is to help patients manage the disease in order to live richer and fuller lives.

ABOUT OUR CLINIC

The WVU Epilepsy Center offers clinical, research, and educational services to patients with epilepsy.

The WVU Epilepsy Center focuses on providing consultative epilepsy evaluation and treatment of patients. Following treatment, patients typically return to their primary neurologist for long-term treatment and follow-up.

State-of-the art facilities and equipment are available for diagnostic studies and treatment, including intracranial electrode implantation, cortical stimulation studies, specialized EEG procedures, and a full range of structural and functional imaging tests.

TREATMENTS WE OFFER

    • Ambulatory epilepsy monitoring (outpatient)
    • Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) (inpatient)
    • Continuous EEG/long-term monitoring
    • Epilepsy surgery
      • Surgical resection
      • Laser interstitial thermo-ablation
      • Corpus callosotomy
      • Responsive neurostimulation (Neuropace)
      • Deep brain stimulation
    • Seizure palliation with vagal nerve stimulation
    • Advanced imaging
    • Medication management

MINIMALLY INVASIVE TREATMENTS

Every year, about 150,000 Americans are diagnosed with epilepsy, a central nervous system disorder that causes seizures. With treatment, about 70 percent of people with epilepsy can go into remission. Progress in epilepsy testing and new minimally invasive surgical treatments are more effective than ever before.

Learn more in this interview with Peter Konrad, MD, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.

EXPERT CARE FOR ALL

From diagnosis to treatment, the WVU Epilepsy Center team cares for epilepsy patients of all ages.

EPILEPSY MONITORING UNIT

Our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit is a dedicated unit with six private rooms to evaluate epilepsy patients. The EMU’s specially-trained medical, nursing, and technical personnel monitor patients 24 hours a day via state-of-the-art computer-based monitoring equipment.

LEVEL 4 EPILEPSY CENTER

WVU’s Epilepsy Center provides state-of-the-art care for adults and children who have seizures. Our Level 4 center, active since 2002, helps patients throughout the region.

Level 4 is the highest level awarded by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. This label means that we help people from around the region and across the country, giving them the most up-to-date therapy for epilepsy.

 

CONTINUOUS EEG/LONG-TERM MONITORING

Long-term monitoring (LTM) for epilepsy refers to a continuous EEG (cEEG) study that records a patient’s mental activity and cerebral function over an extended period of time.  Our WVU Epilepsy specialists are available to review EEGs and continuous EEGs 24 hours a day.

CLINIC INFORMATION

General information

We are located in the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute outpatient clinics located on the fifth floor of the Physician Office Center (adjacent to the WVU Eye Institute) in Morgantown, West Virginia.

1 Medical Center Drive
Morgantown, WV 26506

Office hours: Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm

Please call (304) 598-6127 with any questions or concerns.

 

Referring providers

Our faculty is committed to providing immediate consultations and care for your patients. For physician-to-physician consultations, or to refer your patient, please visit the WVU Medicine Provider Hub for referral forms and more, or call our Medical Access Referral Systems (MARS) at 800-982-6277.

Clinical research

To ensure we are providing our patients with the most current medical and surgical techniques available anywhere in the world, WVU leads and/or participates in a large number of clinical trials.

 

Our team of specialists