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Cerebral commissurotomy for control of intractable seizures

Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, New Hampshire, and the Department of Psychology and Social Saence in Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York.

Cerebral Commissurotomy or the "split-brain" procedure may be a valuable adjunct to anticonvulsants for the control of seizures in people whose epilepsy cannot be relieved by anticonvulsants alone, and who are not candidates for the standard methods of surgery. Corpus callosotomy, a revised form of the usual division of many commissures, is a safer operation and appears to be equally effective. The complex clinical aspects of cure and treatment are emphasized.

Dr. Wilson's address is Department of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Madical Center, Hanover, NH.

Accepted for publication December 20, 1976.

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