We specialize in the evaluation and treatment of seizures and related disorders for both adult and pediatric patients. Annually, our team sees thousands of adult & pediatric patients in a combined outpatient clinic and dedicated state-of-the-art inpatient monitoring unit.

Through our partnership with Allina Hospitals and Clinics and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minnesota Epilepsy Group offers a ten-bed video-EEG monitoring unit for pediatric patients and a separate ten-bed video-EEG monitoring unit for adult patients.  Our state-of-the-art facilities feature fully computerized recording systems with 24-hour attended monitoring by experienced EEG technical staff.

Minnesota Epilepsy Group has achieved EEG laboratory accreditation through the American Board of Registration for EEG and Evoked Potential Technologists (ABRET).   Minnesota Epilepsy Group was the first lab in the state and one of approximately 30 in the country to receive this honor.  The Laboratory Accreditation Board of ABRET requires that high standards are met with regard to staffing, continuing education and development, safety, policies, procedures, quality of recordings, and ongoing internal review to assure a high level of patient care.  The EEG staff of Minnesota Epilepsy Group is proud to uphold these standards.

Admission to the epilepsy unit provides the opportunity for a patient’s seizures to be recorded and characterized, seizure medications to be changed in a safe environment, and for precise localization of seizure onset.

Learn more about our services and specialties or give us a call at (651) 241-5290.

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Magnetoencephalography recording device

Minnesota Epilepsy Group is one of only a few epilepsy programs nationally to use the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology for functional and seizure focus brain mapping.

MSI showing a seizure cluster

This state-of-art technology aids in the pre-surgical evaluation for epilepsy and brain tumor patients.  MEG is used to identify the area of seizure onset and to map the location of brain functions.  The data from the MEG and the data from a high resolution MRI are used together to accurately locate the seizure and functional areas, this combined technology is called Magnetic Source Imaging (MSI).

The integration of this innovative technology with other diagnostic procedures by our team of skilled clinicians is another reason Minnesota Epilepsy Group is considered one of the top epilepsy programs in the nation.

Learn more about our services and specialties or visit our MSI lab website here.

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Minnesota Epilepsy Group, through its affiliation with United Hospitals and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota of St. Paul, has been recognized for its success in the area of epilepsy surgery.

Surgical resection of a seizure focus can be an effective treatment when medications fail to control seizures. Due to improved surgical techniques and state of the art diagnostic procedures, more of these operations are being performed and with greater success.

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