A 13-year-old British teenager, Oran Knowlson, suffering from Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), a severe and treatment-resistant form of epilepsy, received a deep brain stimulation implant in October ...

For patients with epilepsy, traumatic brain injuries, or a brain tumour, an implant used short-term can effectively analyse brain activity and determine the appropriate treatment path. An example ...

After years of battling depression, Eric, a middle-aged emergency worker, took a groundbreaking step—a brain implant.

A medical 1st. The graphene brain chip, which is no bigger than a postage stamp, is being touted as a medical first. "This is ...

epilepsy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, tremors and Tourette syndrome, the Mayo Clinic says. But placing the implants involves major brain surgery, which opens patients up to a number of harmful ...

Synergia Medical has successfully implanted the first two patients in a study evaluating its neurostimulation technology for the treatment of epilepsy ... pulses to the brain to stabilise ...

For these refractory patients, the next treatment option is surgery — perhaps to remove the part of the brain causing the seizures, or implant a device to block the aberrant signals. But first ...

In an engineering lab at the University of Cambridge, his team is developing brain implants to treat neurological and mental health conditions which, the university estimates, will affect four in ...