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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Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder caused by abnormal and unpredictable electrical and chemical activity of neurons. During normal brain function, electrical and chemical information is passed from nerve cells in the brain to other parts of the body in a coordinated, orderly fashion.

However, in patients with epilepsy, this pattern is interrupted by sudden and synchronized bursts of... Read more
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Phillip D Swanson, M.D., Ph.D.
Phillip D Swanson, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Swanson earned his medical degree at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his doctorate degree in biochemistry from the University ...
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