Epilepsy Center

Our skilled specialists are here to help control your seizures so you can live a better life.

Our Approach to Epilepsy Care

If you or a loved one has epilepsy, effective seizure control is your top priority. Memorial Neuroscience Institute has received the highest level of accreditation from the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. Throughout your journey, we will coordinate your care so you can focus on what matters most to you. Meet our team. We are by your side with compassionate support and connections to helpful resources.

Level 4 Epilepsy Center

NAEC Level Four Epilepsy Center Our Level 4 Epilepsy Center, provides a team approach to the diagnosis and treatment of seizures and epilepsy, which includes different types of doctors and other providers who are experts in epilepsy, and has experience treating some of the most complex epilepsy patients. You also have access to more complex forms of neurodiagnostic testing and monitoring, second opinions and life-changing treatment options. If surgery is required, we offer a range of surgical options and navigators who will guide you through the surgery process and follow-up care, and answer your questions along the way.

In addition to epileptologists and neurosurgeons you may also receive care from skilled neuropsychologists, EEG technologists, nurse specialists, patient navigators and others with training and experience in epilepsy. Our neurosurgeons are also researching ways to expand the use of NeuroPace RNS® (Responsive Nerve Stimulation) to help patients with different types of seizures.

Epilepsy services

Multispecialty epilepsy team

Our team includes fellowship-trained epileptologists (neurologists with specialized training in epilepsy) and neurosurgeons.
Personalized care

Epilepsy is different for everyone. Our physicians listen to you and develop a care plan tailored to your needs and preferences.
Full range of treatments

Medications are the first line of epilepsy treatment. When medications aren’t effective, our neurosurgeons offer advanced surgical procedures.
Leading-edge expertise

Our neurosurgeons were the first in South Florida to perform NeuroPace surgery (responsive nerve stimulation) for focal seizures.

Marcela Finds Relief from Epileptic Seizures

See how Marcela's treatment and care helped end her frustration with epileptic seizures and reactions to medications.

Stephanie's epilepsy surgery at Memorial Neuroscience Institute with Dr. Christopher DeMassi

The epilepsy team with Memorial Neuroscience Institute successfully completed its first use of a minimally invasive robotic device that helps pinpoint the origin of epileptic seizures on a patient.

The device, now in full use at Memorial Regional Hospital, is called a Robotized Surgical Assistant, or ROSA. With assistance from the robot, neurosurgeons only need to make small, precise incisions in the scalp and skull to place electrodes deep in the brain and investigate where seizures are triggered.

Memorial's Extraordinary Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

The Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at the Memorial Neuroscience Institute utilizes a sophisticated computer monitoring system to record the brain activity of those who suffer or who are suspected of suffering from epilepsy.

Epileptic Seizure Prevention with NeuroPace from Memorial Neuroscience Institute

Christopher DeMassi, MD, Neurosurgeon, and Tarek Zakaria, MD, Neurologist, explain how the multidisciplinary team at Memorial Neuroscience Institute uses the latest technology to treat epileptic seizures.

NeuroPace, a small battery-powered device implanted in the skull, records electrical activity in the brain and sends electrical impulses to the brain to prevent seizures.

The first center in South Florida to perform NeuroPace surgery, MNI became one of just a few centers in the nation to provide this everyday extraordinary treatment.