Principles of Pre-Surgical Evaluation in Drug Refractory Epilepsy Patients bt Prof Louis Maillard

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.