How well does removing part of the temporal lobe stop seizures? · Grey Matter

In the randomised trial that settled the question, 80 people with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy were assigned to surgery or to continued medication, and after one year 58 % of the surgical group were free of seizures that impair awareness against 8 % of the medical group.

How well does removing part of the temporal lobe stop seizures?

In the randomised trial that settled the question, 80 people with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy were assigned to surgery or to continued medication, and after one year 58 % of the surgical group were free of seizures that impair awareness against 8 % of the medical group. Surgery is considered once two appropriate, tolerated medicines have failed to give lasting freedom from seizures, the international definition of drug resistance. The risks, chiefly to memory and to part of the upper visual field on the side opposite the operation, are weighed with mapping of language and memory before the operation.