Micropump Can Target Epilepsy Sufferers, Linköping University Study

Researchers in France have developed an organic electronic micropump for applying epileptic seizure inhibiting drugs directly into brain tissue.

To treat neurological disorders such as epilepsy it is necessary to act at exactly the right time and place in the brain.The epilepsy drugs can become ineffective if not administered accurately or indeed the drugs themselves may be toxic to other organs.

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