Live Healthy West Virginia
Ep. 24 - Pediatric Epilepsy: Creating Hope with New Treatments
Season 1, Episode 14
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39m
Pediatric epilepsy is the most common childhood brain disorder in the U.S. But a growing number of treatment options are creating new hope for more patients to become seizure-free. We talk with Dr. Lawrence Morton, chief of Child Neurology at WVU Medicine Children’s and the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, about new medications, surgical advancements, and neuromodulation therapies for treating pediatric epilepsy.
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