Dr. Mark Richardson

09/01/2024

Thanks CURE Epilepsy for the opportunity to talk about RNS - responsive neurostimulation therapy - for focal and generalized seizures!

04/28/2024

The Brain Modulation Lab will be at Fenway today for the Epilepsy Foundation New England walk - see you there or consider supporting virtually! We are so grateful to all of those with epilepsy and their families who enable our research to stop seizures and better understand brain function.

https://efne.epilepsynewengland.org/team/570610

11/27/2023

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I am not big on posting personal things about my life, but today marks 10 years since my right temporal lobectomy (Brain Surgery), which was performed by the…

11/10/2022

10 days until the TSC conference. If you wish to attend please go to https://because.massgeneral.org/TSCFamilySymposium. Each day leading up to the conference we will be highlighting a pre-recorded speaker.

Today we would like to introduce Dr. Mark Richardson! Dr. Richardson specializes in functional neurosurgery, surgeries that improve brain function and quality of life. Dr. Richardson performs Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Responsive Neurostimulation (RNS), and laser ablation surgery for people with epilepsy. These surgeries are minimally invasive because they are done through small openings, where the brain is seen using MRI. Recovery for people who receive these surgeries is fairly quick: many patients spend just two nights in the hospital. Dr. Richardson’s team offers early neurosurgical consultations to anyone who has an interest in understanding potential surgical options. Seizures affect quality of life, and he believes every patient with epilepsy deserves the opportunity to learn about treatments that may help them. The early neurosurgical consultation is a welcoming environment to get information about modern treatments without having to make any decision about surgery. Figuring out the best way to control seizures is a challenging puzzle, so Dr. Richardson values listening to patients to learn what is most important to them. Dr. Richardson said it is a privilege to impact people’s lives and his goal for the next year is to educate more of the community about the role that epilepsy surgery can play in improving quality of life for people with TSC.

11/06/2022

I hope Epilepsy Foundation New England and other friends will help spread the word: the Massachusetts General Hospital Epilepsy Center is now active in a clinical trial of RNS Therapy for Idiopathic Generalized , ages 12 through all adults:

https://www.neuropace.com/nautilus-epilepsy-study/

>200,000 people living with drug-resistant in the US could potentially benefit from RNS if proven efficacious!

Please contact (617) 643-3732 if you are interested in being evaluated for the NAUTILUS trial.

10/28/2022

I'll be running this Sunday in Swampscott for our patients with !

Help support The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research today!

04/25/2022

Please join us on Saturday May 7th for the Epilepsy Walk in Boston Commons, the Richardson family will be there!

A fundraising page benefiting Epilepsy Foundation New England

04/16/2022

The Patient Engagement Program, which emerged from the neuroethics components of our U01s, now has a webpage:

Our team of scientists and ethicists are working with patients to understand what kinds of roles they would like to have in our intracranial neuroscience research.

03/03/2022

State of the art pediatric epilepsy surgery at MGH:

https://advances.massgeneral.org/neuro/article.aspx?id=1458

03/03/2022

An important new surgical option for idiopathic generalized - personalized brain stimulation via RNS:
https://RNS-IGE_series