{"id":701,"date":"2015-08-21T19:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T19:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltmedicine\/?p=701"},"modified":"2021-08-11T19:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:41:13","slug":"laser-technology-offers-new-option-to-treat-epilepsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/laser-technology-offers-new-option-to-treat-epilepsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser technology offers new option to treat epilepsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltmedicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/08\/Epilepsy_AMC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltmedicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/08\/Epilepsy_AMC-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"Epilepsy_AMC\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/08\/Epilepsy_AMC-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/08\/Epilepsy_AMC.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Vanderbilt recently debuted a new minimally invasive surgical treatment\u00a0for epilepsy, and for 25-year-old Cory Moquist, the procedure, which he underwent in February, is \u201copening a lot of doors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cutting-edge technique employs MRI-guided laser ablation to destroy the brain tissue causing seizures in place of surgical resection.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m excited that this could fix my epilepsy for good,\u201d Moquist said. \u201cI take so much medication, and I think I\u2019m more tired than I should be. I feel like I\u2019ve put off starting my career, and this will open everything up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A native of Spokane, Washington,\u00a0Moquist began having seizures at age 2, but was able to control them with medication until a severe seizure at age 18, just before he went to college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the beginning of college I was still pretty much in denial and continued to have seizures every two to three weeks. Most people who have witnessed them say they last 20-30 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the supervision of family and friends, Moquist has always been able\u00a0to do the outdoor activities he loves.\u00a0Now he hopes to live an even fuller life seizure-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt recently debuted a new minimally invasive surgical treatment\u00a0for epilepsy, and for 25-year-old Cory Moquist, the procedure, which he underwent in February, is \u201copening a lot of doors.\u201d The cutting-edge technique employs MRI-guided laser ablation to destroy the brain tissue causing seizures in place of surgical resection. \u201cI\u2019m excited that this could fix my epilepsy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vm-around-the-medical-center","category-vm-summer-2015"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcDnub-bj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}