Important Announcements

Nondiscrimination Statement Update

Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.

To see our full nondiscrimination statement, click here.

Campus Construction Update

Starting September 14, we’re closing the Menino building lobby entrance. This, along with the ongoing Yawkey building entrance closure, will help us bring you an even better campus experience that matches the exceptional care you've come to expect. Please enter the Menino and Yawkey buildings through the Moakley building, and make sure to leave extra time to get to your appointment. Thank you for your patience. 

Click here to learn more about our campus redesign. 

If medication and other treatments aren't enough to control your epilepsy symptoms, your doctor may recommend surgery. Surgery for epilepsy removes the area of the brain where seizures happen.

Because of this, epilepsy surgery is best when your seizures happen in just one part of your brain.

Types of epilepsy surgery include:

  • Resective surgery: A small portion of the brain is removed from the area where seizures happen. This is the most common epilepsy surgery and is usually done in one of the temporal lobes.
  • Laser interstitial thermal therapy: Uses a laser to destroy a small piece of brain tissue.
  • Corpus callosotomy: The part of the brain that connects the right and left sides of the brain (the corpus callosum) is partially or completely removed. This surgery is usually done in children who have irregular brain activity on both sides of their brain.
  • Hemispherectomy: One side of the brain, called the cerebral cortex, is removed. This is usually done in children with a condition that leads to seizures in multiple places in one half of the brain.