UT Medicine Functional Neurosurgery Clinic
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- Treatment approach
- Care team
- Conditions
- Procedures
About this clinic
The Functional Neurosurgery Clinic diagnoses, treats and manages complex neurological conditions in adult patients (18 years and older), including Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, tremor, spasticity, epilepsy (lesional and non-lesional), epilepsy-associated tumors, brain cysts and malformations, encephaloceles, hydrocephalus and recovery after stroke.
Our team provides minimally invasive, stereotactic, functional and epilepsy surgeries, including deep brain stimulation, responsive neurostimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, laser interstitial thermal therapy, intrathecal pumps and intraventricular endoscopy. We are dedicated to reducing your neurological symptoms and helping you to live a fuller, more independent life with personalized surgical care designed to improve brain function and quality of life.
Our treatment approach
At UT Medicine, we take an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to your care. This means you will benefit from the expertise of multiple specialists across a variety of disciplines caring for you in one place — avoiding the need to schedule multiple appointments with providers at locations all over the city.
UT Medicine is anchored by Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, where we collaborate with colleagues to apply leading-edge research, diagnostic and treatment techniques to the diagnosis and treatment of your condition. Advanced imaging and lab testing are also available on-site if needed.
Meet your care team
Chelsey Sparks, DNP, AGACNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
UT Medicine Functional Neurosurgery Clinic
Jon Willie, MD, PhD, FAANS
Physician
UT Medicine Functional Neurosurgery Clinic
Conditions we treat
- Brain cysts (arachnoid and colloid cysts), encephaloceles, and lesions causing headaches, hydrocephalus, or seizures
- Brain tumors (low-grade glioma, epilepsy-associated tumors)
- Chiari malformations
- Chronic pain
- Chronic weakness after ischemic stroke
- Dystonia
- Epilepsy (focal, generalized, temporal lobe, lesional and non-lesional)
- Epilepsy-associated tumors/low-grade glioma
- Essential tremor
- Movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia, and spasticity)
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Parkinson’s disease
- Psychiatric disorders (intractable depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, treatment-refractory depression)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Spasticity
- Trigeminal neuralgia
Procedures we perform
- Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and epilepsy
- Deep brain stimulation (DBS), responsive neurostimulation (RNS) and vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) battery replacements
- Functional, stereotactic and epilepsy surgery
- High-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS/HIFU) for tremor
- Intracranial electroencephalography (EEG) and stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) for epilepsy
- Intraventricular endoscopy for hydrocephalus, brain cysts and colloid cysts
- Intrathecal pumps for spasticity
- Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT/stereotactic laser ablation)
- Minimally invasive brain surgery (Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia and spasticity)
- Movement disorder surgery
- Percutaneous rhizotomy for facial pain
- Peripheral nerve and dorsal root ganglion stimulation for pain
- Responsive neurostimulation system (RNS) for epilepsy
- Spinal cord stimulation for chronic back pain
- Stereotactic radiofrequency thermal ablation for epilepsy, chronic pain and tremors
- Temporal lobectomy for epilepsy
- Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for epilepsy, depression, stroke recovery and rheumatoid arthritis