[MUSIC PLAYING] NATHAN FOUNTAIN: We are one of the first comprehensive epilepsy programs. We have a long history to build upon. 40 years ago, comprehensive meant having access to nurses with special training to dietitians to physical therapy. Now comprehensive's really shifted its focus and what it means is having available every diagnostic test that is available to anyone else and also having all treatment modalities available. That means all kinds of treatment. 

Epilepsy is a difficult condition to have, because it does cause seizures. So job one in the treatment of epilepsy is to suppress seizures, typically through medications or other kinds of treatments and that's really what people are after. No seizures, no side effects. For patients who have seizures that aren't controlled with medications, then we often consider devices. 

There's one that can be placed in the neck called Vagus Nerve Stimulation, one that can now be placed in the skull that's a small computer that monitors brain wave activity and can provide a little electrical stimulus to the place where the seizures are coming from. And for people who are appropriate candidates, meaning having seizures from one small spot in the brain we can safely remove, then epilepsy surgery is really gratifying, because then it provides the one opportunity really for a cure for epilepsy. 

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