Regional Epilepsy Center
Regional Epilepsy Center at HMC  At the UW Medicine Regional Epilepsy Center, based at Harborview Medical Center, teams of specialists in adult and pediatric neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology and neuropsychology, as well as nurses, social workers, vocational rehabilitation specialists and electrodiagnostic technicians, diagnose and treat difficult seizure problems. 

We offers a multidisciplinary program for the comprehensive clinical care of epilepsy, including conventional, as well as innovative electrodiagnostic and brain imaging methods to correctly diagnose seizures and determine their underlying causes. The center also works in partnership with referring physicians across the Northwest and the rest of the United States to diagnose and treat all types of seizure disorders among children and adults.
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Medical Treatment of Epilepsy
Providers Adam Olding Hebb, M.D. , John W Miller, M.D., Ph.D.

For more than 80 years, the most effective treatment for people with epilepsy (seizure disorders) has been use of seizure-preventing medications called anticonvulsant or antiepileptic drugs.

While the medications do not cure epilepsy, they make it possible for many people to live normal, active lives, free of seizures. Others continue to have seizures, but with much less frequency....
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Naomi S Chaytor, Ph.D.
Naomi S Chaytor, Ph.D. Dr. Chaytor received her doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Washington State University. She completed a neuropsychology internship at the ...
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