It’s time to start waking up with confidence, knowing your seizures are under control. Because when you replace feelings of fear with a sense of freedom, you can truly begin to feel whole again — in body, mind and spirit.
AdventHealth Orlando is designated as a Level 4 Epilepsy Center — the only one for both adults and children in Central Florida. This recognition is for providing the highest levels of quality and excellence in epilepsy care. Featuring a comprehensive approach to help you live your life to the fullest and the latest minimally invasive technologies, including Robotic Stereotactic Assistance (ROSA®) and NeuroPace RNS®, our specialists are here to serve you. Rest assured that we’re ready to help prevent your next seizure from escalating.
Choosing the Right Treatment for You
Our specialists will provide you with the best recommendation possible for your health and well-being, from medication and a proper diet to our breadth of surgical options, including minimally invasive procedures. Surgical treatments at the AdventHealth Neuroscience Institute include Robotic Stereotactic Assistance (ROSA®), which uses GPS-like navigation to remove only the tissue in the precise spot where seizures begin. NeuroPace RNS® is another groundbreaking technology available. This device is implanted in the brain to monitor and respond to brain activity, which helps prevent seizures.
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Diet and Medication
For about 70% of our patients, the most effective treatment will be a combination of diet modifications and anti-epileptic medication. The ketogenic diet is often recommended because its high-fat and low-carb regimen helps your body produce natural anticonvulsants and control seizures. We offer the only physician-led program of its kind in Florida.
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Monitoring
The AdventHealth Neuroscience Institute offers the most sophisticated monitoring tools available today with our magnetoencephalography (MEG) program, the only one of its kind in the state. Painless and non-invasive, MEG is a neurodiagnostic test performed in adults and children to capture activity deep inside the brain and to identify where seizures originate. This procedure maps your brain function. When surgery is required, MEG enables us to pinpoint problem areas and keep healthy areas of the brain safe, too.
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Procedures
The most common surgical procedure to treat epilepsy is a temporal lobe resection that removes a tiny part of the brain where seizures tend to start. The AdventHealth Neuroscience Institute uses advanced, minimally invasive technology like ROSA® to ensure that procedures are done with extraordinary precision, shorter recovery times and reduced risks. AdventHealth is the only hospital in Central Florida offering these minimally invasive techniques.
A trusted name in neuroscience, AdventHealth has partnered with Orlando Neurosurgery, a team that has delivered leading-edge treatments and world-class brain and spine expertise to the Central Florida community for over 20 years.
Together, we’re scaling an advanced and personalized neurosurgical program with the area’s top experts in the field of neuroscience and neurosurgery.
#1 Hospital in Greater Orlando
AdventHealth Orlando has been recognized as the #1 hospital in Greater Orlando for 14 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.
Central Florida’s Only National Leader in Brain Care
AdventHealth Orlando is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the highest-ranked neurology and neurosurgery care in Central Florida.
Level 4 Epilepsy Center, National Association of Epilepsy Centers
With the highest designation for epilepsy centers in the nation, AdventHealth Orlando has the expertise and resources to provide exceptional medical and surgical evaluation and treatment for patients with complex epilepsy.
ABRET Accredited
The AdventHealth Orlando EEG Lab has been accredited by ABRET, which encourages and promotes quality technical and clinical standards world-wide for neurodiagnostic laboratories through certification and accreditation. We are the only lab certified in Central Florida for both adults and children.
Nationally Recognized for Patient Safety, Quality and Transparency
The Leapfrog Group has exclusively recognized AdventHealth with the Emerald Award for remarkable achievements and leadership in patient safety, quality and transparency by a health care system, including maintaining a culture of excellence throughout all levels of the organization.