Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
Epilepsy Care
Epilepsy is a neurological condition that produces brief disturbances in the normal electrical functions of the brain. These disturbances may affect a person's consciousness, bodily movements or sensations for a short time – changes known as epileptic seizures.
Fletcher Allen has a comprehensive epilepsy program that helps people handle the many issues facing patients with epilepsy and related disorders. A team of highly skilled providers, including adult and pediatric epilepsy specialists, a neuropsychologist, a neurosurgeon and a neuroradiologist, provides accurate diagnosis, optimal treatment regimens, counseling, drug research trials and epilepsy surgery.
We conduct neuronal or brain mapping to determine the specific function of a particular brain area during epilepsy surgery, and offer specialized studies to diagnose epilepsy in our Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory, including electroencephalography (EEG), which records a patient's brain wave activity, and ambulatory and inpatient epilepsy monitoring.
