Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
The Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Program

The Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Program is the leading medical program in the southwestern United States for diagnosing and treating patients of all ages with seizures and epilepsy.

Our staff is committed to helping each patient achieve the best possible seizure control and the desired quality of life using comprehensive diagnostic and treatment methods. We use modern methods to precisely identify the abnormal brain region generating the seizures and regions with important cognitive, motor and/or sensory function.

Based at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, the program provides an essential resource for medical evaluation, care and surgical treatment for adults and children. Composed of specialists and allied health professionals who are experts in epileptology, our epilepsy team uses sophisticated imaging and monitoring technology to evaluate patients and identify the etiology and origin of their seizures. Treatment may involve adjusting or changing medications, vagus nerve stimulation, use of the specialized ketogenic diet or performing a surgical procedure.

The core members of our epilepsy team include adult and pediatric neurologists, an epidemiologist, neuropsychologists, neuroradiologists and neurosurgeons. They are supported by an epilepsy nurse clinician, fellows in clinical neurophysiology, research coordinators and EEG technologists. All treatment decisions are reviewed during weekly clinical care conferences. Patient cases are discussed in detail, and decisions are made about the next course of action.