We work tirelessly to offer you expert, innovative and compassionate care for movement and epilepsy issues at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview. You’re certain to appreciate how carefully we diagnose and create a treatment plan specific to your needs.

Treatment options:

• Medication
• Assist devices
• Physical and occupational therapy
• Minimally invasive surgical techniques
• Gamma Knife^® stereotactic radiosurgery (a non-invasive
       method for treating brain disorders)
• Deep brain stimulation (DBS; a surgical treatment involving the implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker)
• Molecular therapies

Movement Disorders
Many brain diseases produce abnormal movements. Using a highly integrated approach, our care team evaluates patients to find the optimal medication and/or surgical approach for managing their movement disorders. We can provide you with the highest-quality care, applying clinical research, emerging therapies and cutting-edge technologies.

Brain diseases characterized by abnormal movements include:

• Dystonia (a movement disorder with abnormal, involuntary muscle contractions)
• Essential tremor
• Huntington’s disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Parkinson’s disease

• Ablative procedures, such as pallidotomy and thalamotomy, involve removing a small region of the brain.
• Deep brain stimulation (DBS) involves the implantation of a thin electrical wire into the brain and a battery-driven
       pulse generator just below the collar bone. The pulse generator supplies electrical stimulation via the
       implanted electrical leads.

Epilepsy
We can offer you coordinated, compassionate care in addressing epilepsy at our Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. This center has been designated as a Level 4 Comprehensive Epilepsy Center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. That means our world-class care team can create a comprehensive treatment for you, no matter what your age or type of epilepsy or seizure disorder might be.

In treating epilepsy, we incorporate:

• Seizure assessment and treatment individualization
• Seizure control with medical management
• Evaluation for surgery
• Surgery
• Anterior temporal lobectomy (the complete removal of the anterior portion of the temporal lobe of the brain)
• Corpus callosotomy (a surgical procedure that disconnects the cerebral hemispheres)
• Lesionectomy (helps in relieving seizures by removing abnormal lesions of the brain)
• Selective amygdalohippocampectomy (removal of the hippocampus and amygdalae; used when all other
       treatment options have failed to resolve the epilepsy)
• Vagus nerve stimulation (helps prevent seizures by sending regular, mild pulses of electrical energy to the brain
       via the vagus nerve)

We also use the latest in technology:

• Continuous video electroencephalogram (EEG; the recording of electrical activity along the scalp)
• High-resolution MRI and positron emission tomography (PET; a test that uses a special type of camera and a
       tracer or radioactive chemical to look at organs in the body)
• Intracranial monitoring (a test that senses the pressure inside the skull, sending its measurements to a
       recording device)
• Wada test (helps determine which side of the brain controls language function, as well as the importance of 
       each side of the brain in regard to memory function)

Clinics:

• Minneapolis

• Neurology Clinic
  • Phillips-Wangensteen Building First Floor, Clinic 1A 516 Delaware St. SE
  • Minneapolis, MN 55455
  • 612-626-6688
• Neurosurgery Clinic
  • Phillips-Wangensteen Building
    First Floor, Clinic 1A
    516 Delaware St. SE
  • Minneapolis, MN 55455
  • 612-624-6666