Posted on Feb 14, 2023
Lasers, robots, and tiny electrodes are transforming treatment of severe epilepsy
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I've got a Friend that had a "Lobotomy" to treat His Epilepsy, He's a bit Anal Retentive but I Like Him, The Last Medical I responded to as a Security Officer was an Epileptic Seizure, Any Better Treatment is a Good Thing in My Book!
I've got a Friend that had a "Lobotomy" to treat His Epilepsy, He's a bit Anal Retentive but I Like Him, The Last Medical I responded to as a Security Officer was an Epileptic Seizure, Any Better Treatment is a Good Thing in My Book!
Lasers, robots, and tiny electrodes are transforming treatment of severe epilepsy
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel I have a relative who was treated n this fashion successfully.
..."Sometimes, doctors find that seizures are coming from several brain areas, or from an area that's too important to eliminate. That's when doctors may try a device that studies the signals coming from electrodes permanently implanted in a patient's brain.
"It's constantly recording in the background," Ben-Haim says. "And then it's able to essentially defibrillate the brain when it senses the onset of a seizure."
All of these advances mean that more patients with drug-resistant epilepsy can now look beyond medication to prevent their seizures.
"We've transitioned to more of a surgical-based treatment as well as minimally invasive surgical techniques that I think have really revolutionized the treatment of epilepsy," Shih says.
Tom is happy to be a part of that revolution. He still takes medication to remain seizure-free. But he's remarried, working part time, and driving a car for the first time in years.
"I have a sense of independence now that I hadn't had since 2007," he says. All thanks to technology that didn't exist back then."
..."Sometimes, doctors find that seizures are coming from several brain areas, or from an area that's too important to eliminate. That's when doctors may try a device that studies the signals coming from electrodes permanently implanted in a patient's brain.
"It's constantly recording in the background," Ben-Haim says. "And then it's able to essentially defibrillate the brain when it senses the onset of a seizure."
All of these advances mean that more patients with drug-resistant epilepsy can now look beyond medication to prevent their seizures.
"We've transitioned to more of a surgical-based treatment as well as minimally invasive surgical techniques that I think have really revolutionized the treatment of epilepsy," Shih says.
Tom is happy to be a part of that revolution. He still takes medication to remain seizure-free. But he's remarried, working part time, and driving a car for the first time in years.
"I have a sense of independence now that I hadn't had since 2007," he says. All thanks to technology that didn't exist back then."
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