Northern German Epilepsy Center
for Children and Adolescents

For over 35 years we have been treating, counseling and caring for children and adolescents (0 and 18 years of age) with epilepsy using the most up-to-date medical information available. We admit patients from throughout Germany as well as abroad.

For parents wishing to accompany their child, we offer parent-child rooms as well as guest apartments.

In the course of an inpatient stay, epilepsy-specific diagnostics are conducted, a treatment plan is drawn up and initiated, and a neuropsychological assessment is made. In addtion to individual care and supervision, supportive psychological and educational measures, we support and advise parents. We put a lot of emphasis on comprehensive information about the illness as well as regular instruction for our patients and their guardians. In addition, social counseling, physical and occupational therapy all complement our holistic approach to treatment.

A cooperative agreement with the Kiel branch of Schleswig-Holstein’s University Hospital ensures close collaboration with the Nueropediatric Clinic (headed by Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Stephani) and the Radiology Clinic (Prof. Dr. med. O. Jansen). This allows for additional, comprehensive diagnostic tools such as presurgical video-EEG monitoring, high-resolution structural and functional MRI (3-tesla), PET, ictal-SPECT examinations as well as metabolic testing. We can also offer genetic testing and counseling through our collaboration with the university’s Human Genetics Institute.

A lot of emphasis is put on the documentation of both desirable and undesirable effects of treatment. This plays an important role in subsequent diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. In our clinic and, if possible, at home too, this documentation is done using the electronic treatment diary Epivista® (available to interested users free of charge). Using this, all information relevant to treatment can be collected, saved and presented in an easy-to-understand diagram which can then be used to help plan treatment. This electronic documentation also makes communication with patients and their families as well as the cooperation with referring doctors during aftercare easier. Indeed, a major part of treatment is the active involvement of patients and parents in the treatment itself and in the assessment of results achieved through it.

Patients also have the opportunity to take part in special education classes in the clinic’s own classrooms of the State Outreach Center for Physical and Motor Development in Schwentinental.

Outpatient checkups are conducted by the head physician Assoc. Prof. Dr. med. Rainer Boor.