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Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep CenterMid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center offers specialized care for patients with epilepsy and sleep disorders using the most advanced techniques available. We use the model of an academic clinical service in a private practice setting. We combine academic excellence normally provided at universities with the personal attention of private practice. Our physicians draw on their own clinical research in epilepsy to provide the most up-to-date care for patients with epilepsy. We strive to provide the best care of epilepsy and sleep disorders in the greater Washington, D.C., area, and the mid-Atlantic region. Epilepsy: We provide comprehensive care for patients with seizures. For patients with difficult to treat epilepsy, this includes optimization of currently available antiepileptic medications, surgical treatment, dietary treatment (with ketogenic diet), and an option to participate in studies of new medications. Our epilepsy physicians (epileptologists) are recognized nationwide for both research and clinical practice. Our physicians have received grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, CURE and the American Epilepsy Society, and participate in the leadership of the American Epilepsy Society. Our center for women with epilepsy is run by one of the founders of the American Epilepsy Society task force for care of women with epilepsy. Our ketogenic diet center was the first center in the country for ketogenic diet treatment of epilepsy in adults. We pride ourselves in caring for each patient at the personal level. That personal care and concern is shared by everyone in our center. We know how badly epilepsy can impact our patients' lives, and we do everything we can to minimize the effect of epilepsy. Our goal is freedom from seizures for every patient we see, with no or minimal side effects from the treatment. We cannot promise you that we will succeed in that goal with everyone, but we promise you that we will do everything we can to try to reach it. Sleep disorders: At our sleep center we evaluate and treat patients with a wide variety of sleep conditions, including sleep apnea, insomnia, restless leg syndrome, narcolepsy, jet lag and other disorders of circadian sleep regulation and disorders of arousals, such as sleep-walking, sleep talking and REM-behavioral disorder. We offer a high degree of individualized attention and care by our staff. Patients enjoy the advantages of expertly trained staff and personalized attention in a quiet out-patient atmosphere. We pay attention to both the scientific basis of sleep evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders, and to the personal aspects of each patient's life that may contribute to the disorder and its treatment. Our providers recognize the importance of the relationship between sleep and other aspects of physical and mental health and integrate alteration in lifestyle such as weight loss and sleep hygiene into the treatment plan. Our goal is to help you improve your life through improving your sleep.
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Champlain Building, Suite 410 • 6410 Rockledge Drive • Bethesda, MD 20814 • Phone: 301.530.9744 • Fax: 301.530.0046 • e-mail: johnsons@epilepsydc.com |
