About 12 years ago, my son had surgery for Epilepsy that was completely successful in stopping the seizures. Here is an interesting article on advances in surgery treatments.
One woman’s journey through diagnosis and treatment shows how far we have come in using surgery to defuse seizures
More than 2.5 million people in the U.S. and 600,000 in Germany have epilepsy. About two thirds of them are freed of seizures with drug therapy, but for the rest, surgery is the only other option. Although the operations carry risks, 60 percent of adults and 70 percent of children remain free of seizures afterward. As physicians perform more procedures, the presurgical testing and the final outcomes are helping researchers learn more about the condition and the workings of the human brain.