#epileptologist

I was very happy to learn that a hospital here in Puerto Rico, Manatí Medical Center, just opened a comprehensive epilepsy unit in an effort to provide reach patients al over the island.

Crean unidad comprensiva de epilepsia para pacientes puertorriqueños

As the article says, the goal of the center is to monitor, diagnose and treat as well as perform surgery in the hospital so the patients don’t…

The “brain stethoscope”

Check this out: Stanford researchers listen for silent seizures with “brain stethoscope” that turns brain waves into sound

This is an article about this pretty awesome thing neurologists at Stanford are developing that allows doctors and nurses to hear a seizure. (more…)

Epilepsy surgery in temporal lobe epilepsy due to mesial temporal sclerosis: investigative work-up from the neurologist’s office to the operating room

Virginia Thornley, M.D. Neurologist, Epileptologist

March 26, 2018

Introduction

Temporal lobe epilepsy is one of the most common types of seizures. The most common cause is mesial temporal sclerosis. This article focuses on mesial temporal sclerosis and does not include discussions of other types of temporal lobe epilepsy due to other causes such as tumors, cystic lesions or head injury or…

as I do every year when this list comes out, I strongly recommend  Dr. Ki Hyeong Lee to anybody living in Florida, or even the South-eastern United states if you are willing to travel for a great Neuro.

What a weekend, majority of it spent shoveling and reshoveling the driveway. I have muscles I never knew I had screaming at me today after 6 rounds of cardio.

Still trying to push through uncertainty and sleep deprivation with all Will has going on.  I know in time I will adjust to this new normal, I’m just not there yet. Living on pins and needles and coffee and anxiety.  Seeing an…