Principles of Pre-Surgical Evaluation in Drug Refractory Epilepsy Patients

Surgery is the only potential curative treatment of drug refractory structural and focal epilepsies. It is mandatory to understand that epilepsy surgery is a functional surgery. Long term video-EEG (and sometimes video-SEEG) recordings constitute the core of the multi-modal pre-surgical work-up.

The proposed course has the over-reaching goal to introduce, in a progressive, practical, and didactic fashion, the methods of long-term video-EEG (SEEG) recordings with the perspective of delineating the epileptogenic zone and ultimately propose epilepsy surgery when possible

Learning Objectives:

• The audience will be able to understand the indications of long term video-EEG.
• The audience will be able to understand the principles underlying the analysis and interpretation of video-EEG, with an emphasis on anatomo-electro-clinical correlations and the concept of functional concordance.
• The audience will be able to understand the criteria leading to contra-indication or indication for surgery and/or phase 2 (SEEG) investigations.