UCSFepilepsy

Based in the heart of San Francisco, we are dedicated to treating all forms of epilepsy across all ages using state-of-the-art treatments.

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Patients and Clinicians!📢
Help shape how we measure epilepsy neuromodulation surgery success!
Which aspects of daily life matter most to well-being and satisfaction after RNS, DBS, or VNS?
Survey: https://t.co/GljRB4zGTW
Your input will guide a new patient-centered outcome scale

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HD Probes Show for the First Time How Epileptic ‘Brain Blips’ Occur https://t.co/9xgdjJ5jlG

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Led by MD/PhD student Alex Silva @asilvaalex1, a collaboration between Jon Kleen/Kleen Lab @UCSFepilepsy and Edward Chang/Chang Lab @Changlabucsf @NeurosurgUCSF

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Just out in @NatureNeuro! Eyelash-sized Neuropixels probes show how brief electrical bursts between seizures ("interictal spikes") arise from consistent neurons in human cortex layers, hijack neurons used for cognition, & can be predicted up to 1-sec ahead
https://t.co/9vYLC56ic8

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New @NatureNeuro study from @UCSFepilepsy, @ChangLabUcsf, @NeurosurgUCSF using human Neuropixels recordings was covered with a beautiful story in Science Magazine!

Tiny probes make sense of abnormal bursts in the epileptic brain | Science | AAAS https://t.co/wWaxHvdH08

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Extraordinary work by current (Dr. Nilika Singhal) and former (Dr. Joseph Sullivan) UCSF Pediatric Epilepsy faculty:

Zorevunersen in Children and Adolescents with Dravet Syndrome | New England Journal of Medicine https://t.co/ECkl2OTRwj

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In the Human Epilepsy Project multicenter cohort study, most individuals with newly diagnosed focal #epilepsy required over a year and multiple antiseizure medications to become seizure free. https://t.co/GVrFSlozed

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In the Human Epilepsy Project multicenter cohort study, most individuals with newly diagnosed focal #epilepsy required over a year and multiple antiseizure medications to become seizure free.

https://t.co/w5InIhywZv

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Among adults with newly diagnosed focal #Epilepsy, suicidality at diagnosis was associated with more than double the risk of future drug resistance vs mood or anxiety disorders alone. https://t.co/tGGe6xjRf4

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Remarkable work by Dr. Joseph Sullivan during his time at UCSF!

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A video shows a patient with Dravet syndrome performing activities of daily living before and after treatment with zorevunersen.

Watch the full video and read the full report: https://t.co/Tm1VSETt15

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Suicidality and Treatment Resistance in Focal Epilepsy https://t.co/A2zJt70a3T
Proud to be a part of this important work

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New work by adult epileptologist/neuroscientist extraordinaire Patrick Hullett MD, PhD and the @ChangLabUcsf -- showing the human frontal lobe receives fast, low-level speech information in parallel with early speech areas! Published in @NatureComms 🎉🧠
https://t.co/30ztCLvxan

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Our own Sharon Chiang, MD, PhD has been selected as the recipient of the ANA-Persyst Professional Development Award! This award is provided to assist early career academics specializing in the field of epilepsy reach their goals of becoming clinician neuroscientists - Congrats!🎉

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Thrilled to welcome the following neurology residents to the UCSF Epilepsy Fellowship, starting 2026!
Divyesh Doddapaneni, University of Colorado
Rachel Eby, Oregon Health Sciences University
Brandon Wei, Houston Methodist
Erin Yeagle, UCSF
Congratulations! @UCSFepilepsy #NRMP

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"It can be hard to figure out where that bad spot or network is and precisely how far it extends, especially when brain imaging studies look normal. Our thought was similar to high-resolution TVs—more detail might be better."
https://t.co/6cbDxfeux8

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Congrats to 1st-author Ebenezer Chinedu-Eneh!!! 🎉🧠

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Are HIGHER densities of intracranial contacts on depths/strips/grids BETTER for finding the seizure-onset zone and its margins?
A carefully controlled study by the Kleen Lab @UCSF is published today in @TheLancet's open access journal @eBioMedicine!
https://t.co/zkFKkz1EKX

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UCSF Epilepsy Division Chief Vikram Rao MD PhD featured in The Academic @theacademic0 🎉

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How can people living with #epilepsy gauge the likelihood of future #seizures?

Academic: Vikram Rao

@UCSFepilepsy @ucsfhealth @usfca @ChangLabUcsf @NeurosurgUCSF

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Read about a "neural heartbeat in the hippocampus" that forecasts epileptic seizures, featured in this recent article in The Academic (alluding to the groundbreaking study published this summer in Nature Medicine by Vikram Rao, @ANKhambhati, and others):
https://t.co/ogvqCrsnIN

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Momentary snapshots of hippocampal brain activity may provide daily seizure forecasts in epilepsy @UCSFEpilepsy, @NeurosurgUCSF, @ANKhambhati, @ChangLabUCSF #seizurecycles, #epilepsy

https://t.co/Qicm8RAhZ9