Part I: Selection: What is uncontrolled epilepsy, and who should be referred for surgery? Approaches to patient selection for resective procedures; Intracranial recording; Selection of patients for corpus callosum section; Epilepsy surgery: special considerations in children; Part II: Surgery: Temporal lobectomy; Extratemporal resections in the surgical treatment of epilepsy; Corpus callosum section; Part III: Outcome: Dogma, data, and directions.