Ascension St. Vincent - Indianapolis Functional Neurosurgery

Ascension St. Vincent - Indianapolis Functional Neurosurgery delivers minimally invasive techniques to modify and restore nervous system functions.

Neurosurgeons deliver advanced surgical care

At Ascension St. Vincent – Indianapolis Functional Neurosurgery, our functional neurosurgeons provide advanced stereotactic and minimally invasive surgical care designed to restore and improve nervous system function.

We care for patients living with chronic facial and neuropathic pain, movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and dystonia and epilepsy — including drug-resistant epilepsy. Our approach begins by identifying the underlying cause of your symptoms and developing a personalized treatment plan focused on relieving pain, improving movement and enhancing your quality of life.

Our team is trained in a wide range of neuromodulation therapies that use advanced implantable technologies to help regulate nervous system activity. These therapies include:

  • Deep brain stimulation (DBS) 
  • Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) 
  • MRI-guided high-frequency focused ultrasound
  • Responsive Neurostimulation (RNS)
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)

Functional neurology conditions

When you choose Ascension St. Vincent - Indianapolis Functional Neurosurgery for your care, your surgeon starts by understanding your symptoms and using the latest in diagnostics to find the right neuromodulation therapies for you. We provide nonsurgical and surgical treatments for the following conditions:

  • Brain tumors
    • Malignant brain tumors including gliomas
    • Benign brain tumors including meningiomas and other noncancerous lesions
    • Tumors causing seizures or neurologic symptoms
    • Deep-seated or difficult-to-access brain tumors
  • Chronic pain and neuropathic pain
    • Trigeminal neuralgia
    • Facial pain syndromes
    • Cancer-related pain
    • Chronic pain syndromes unresponsive to medical therapy
  • Epilepsy
    • Medically refractory (drug-resistant) epilepsy
    • Focal (partial) epilepsy
    • Generalized epilepsy
    • Epilepsy associated with brain lesions or tumors
  • Functional movement disorders
    • Parkinson’s disease
    • Essential tremor
    • Dystonia
    • Other movement disorders

Procedures and treatments 

Our functional neurosurgeons use specific procedures and treatments to improve your day-to-day functions and abilities. Procedures and treatments used to modify and restore nervous system functions include:

  • Advanced, image-guided technologies
    • MRI-guided high-frequency focused ultrasound
    • Image-guided and stereotactic navigation techniques
    • Minimally invasive, precision-based neurosurgical approaches
  • Epilepsy surgery
    • Surgical evaluation for epilepsy
    • Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT) for epilepsy
    • Resection or ablation of seizure-causing brain lesions
    • Neuromodulation therapies for epilepsy
  • Functional neurosurgery and stereotactic procedures
    • Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
    • Stereotactic brain surgery
    • Minimally invasive functional neurosurgery
    • MRI-guided high-frequency focused ultrasound
  • Neuromodulation therapies
    • Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
    • Responsive Neurostimulation (RNS)
    • Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)
    • Spinal cord stimulation
    • Peripheral nerve stimulation
    • Implantable neuromodulation devices for pain and neurologic disorders
  • Pain procedures
    • Surgical treatment for trigeminal neuralgia
    • Neuromodulation for chronic and neuropathic pain
    • Minimally invasive pain procedures
  • Tumor treatments
    • Minimally invasive brain tumor surgery
    • Stereotactic biopsy
    • Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT) for brain tumors
    • Image-guided brain tumor surgery