The main tasks of SSE for which the centre has a national responsibility:

  • Medical evaluation and treatment of people with pharmaco-resistant epilepsy
  • Selection and evaluation of candidates for epilepsy surgery – and postoperative follow-up
  • Dietary treatment for epilepsy
  • Evaluation and diagnostic work-up in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)
  • Medical evaluation and treatment of people with epilepsy and intellectual disability

About the group

Currently there is ongoing research within the following areas:

  • Characterization of phenotype and genotype in different epilepsy syndromes
  • Pharmacokinetic studies of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs)
  • Studies of efficacy and tolerability of different treatment modalities; AEDs, surgery, neurostimulation and ketogenic diets
  • Comorbidities associated with epilepsy, e.g. neuropsychiatric, neurocognitive and psychosocial problems
  • Studies of patients with PNES

Cooperation

This broad range of areas requires close collaboration with research groups in Norway and abroad.

National

  • St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital
  • Oslo University Hospital

International

  • EURAP - European Registry of Antiepileptic drugs and Pregnancy, Milan, Italy
  • EpiCare - European Reference Network for rare and complex epilepsies
  • Danish Epilepsy Center, Dianalund, Denmark
  • Bonn University Hospital, Germany
  • Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden