Highlights of the Rainbow Epilepsy Center
CaseThe Center offers the latest innovative treatments of seizure disorders by nationally and internationally known physicians and researchers.

Care includes:
  • Drug research trials, which may allow some children to receive cutting-edge medications that have not yet reached the main population.
  • Surgical procedures that may reduce or eliminate seizures completely
  • The vagal nerve stimulator, an implantable device that may reduce the frequency and severity of seizures
  • The ketogenic diet which is a non-surgical, non-drug option for selected patients.

The vagus nerves branch off the brain on either side of the head and travel down the neck, along the esophagus to the intestinal tract. They are the longest nerves in the body, and affect swallowing and speech. The vagus nerves also connect to parts of the brain involved in seizures. In many seizures disorders, electrical stimulation of the vagus nerves may afford relief of symptoms.