Brain Implant Could Prevent Epileptic Seizures

A BRAIN implant is being created that should more reliably detect and forestall epileptic seizures. Neuropace of Mountain View, California, is already testing in humans an implant that detects seizures and then delivers an electric current to stop them. However, it only monitors eight locations in the brain and so can give false positives, says Pedro Irazoqui of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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