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A British boy with severe epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to take part in the trial of a new device fitted in the skull to control seizures.
Oran Knowlson was having multiple seizures a day.
Here’s our medical editor, Fergus Walsh: Surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London inserted two electrodes deep into Oran’s brain.
These were connected to a small neurostimulator placed in a gap cut out of his skull.
The rechargeable device provides a constant low-level stimulus, designed to block the uncontrolled burst of electrical activity which triggered Oran’s seizures.
Seven months after the device with switched on, his daytime seizures have reduced by 80%.
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