Ask Stanford Medicine: Dr. Josef Parvizi discusses drug-resistant epilepsy

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As part of the Stanford School of Medicine's Ask Stanford Med series, Stanford neurologist Dr. Joseph Parvizi will be responding to questions on the subject of drug resistant epilepsy, and a surgical procedure to help treat the devastating condition. Dr. Parvizi, MD, PhD, is the director of the Stanford Program for Drug-Resistant Epilepsies. Dr. Parvizi will be taking questions both via twitter, or via the School of Medicine's Scope blog. Questions will be collected until Wednesday (June 19) at 5 PM Pacific Time. Both neuroscientists and members of the general public are encouraged to ask a question, and to join the conversation at the Scope blog.

To find out more about the event, or to ask a question or to join the conversation, visit the Scope blog.

To ask a question via Twitter, be sure to include #AskSUMed in your tweet.

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Astra Bryant

Astra Bryant is a graduate of the Stanford Neuroscience PhD program in the labs of Drs. Eric Knudsen and John Huguenard. She used in vitro slice electrophysiology to study the cellular and synaptic mechanisms linking cholinergic signaling and gamma oscillations – two processes critical for the control of gaze and attention, which are disrupted in many psychiatric disorders. She is a senior editor and the webmaster of the NeuWrite West Neuroblog