Research progress of nerve stimulation in the treatment of epilepsy in children

Abstract

Nerve stimulation treatment of epilepsy is to stimulate the central nervous system through electric current, thereby reducing the frequency and severity of epilepsy seizures. The current nerve stimulation methods that may be used to treat pediatric epilepsy include vagus nerve stimulation, responsive neurostimulator system, deep brain stimulation, chronic subthreshold cortical stimulation, and transcranial direct current stimulation. This article reviews the use of these neurostimulation techniques in epilepsy to analyze the effectiveness and safety of these treatments, and to provide references for the clinical treatment of intractable epilepsy in children.