We love neuroscience questions – and we have answers!
We know neuroscience conditions can be complicated and difficult to understand, so we want you to have helpful resources and make sure you’re getting your questions answered in a timely manner.
Patient & Family Education Materials
We have an entire online library of free, searchable materials for patients and families to learn about various health and medical information. Many pages are also available in Hmong, Somali, and Spanish translations.
Here are links to some of the highly accessed topics related to neuroscience:
Providing comfort and pain management
- Caring for a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC line) at home
- Helping children cope with medical procedures
- Helping children cope with mobility changes
- Information for parents about integrative medicine
- Pain in children and teens
- Pain in infants (babies)
- Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA/pain medicine pump)
- Wound care tips
Sedation
Understanding procedures
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Neuro-oncology
- The Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation
- The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
- The Teen Heads Up Conference is for teen survivors of brain tumors (ages 13-18).
Epilepsy and seizures
- American Epilepsy Society
- Article: Surgery for epilepsy sooner rather than later
- Camp Oz is a traditional summer camp that provides a safe and fun camping experience for youth ages 9–17 with epilepsy.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota
- Febrile seizures
- Phenobarbital is a medicine used to help control seizures.
- North American Antiepileptic Drug Pregnancy Registry
- National Association of Epilepsy Centers
- Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
