Phase 1 evaluations: (Pt. 1) Clinical features, EEG, and MRI

"Let's Talk About Epilepsy Surgery" is our new awareness campaign about pediatric epilepsy surgery. In this fourth webinar in our series, our founder Monika Jones discusses phase 1 evaluations with Dr. Elaine Wyllie, a pediatric neurologist at The Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Wyllie reviews when parents should consider surgery, and then introduces us to the many aspects of phase 1 evaluations including how MRIs are not 100% reliable when exploring lesions and malformations in the brain. Subtle or invisible lesions require further assessments including PET, SPECT, and MEG.

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Will you be doing a segment on the different types of higher level testing, like the PET and Spect, etc?