A 13-year-old boy in the UK has received the world’s first neurostimulator implant to control seizures as a part of a clinical trial. The 3.5 cm square neurostimulator was implanted in his skull to deliver a constant electrical pulse to suppress the abnormal signals in the brain. The young patient has been battling Lennox-Gastaut syndrome since the age of three. He experienced two dozen to a few hundred seizures daily. The seizures made him shake violently, fall to the ground, and lose consciousness.
They would also stop his breath, which required emergency medication to resuscitate him. Remarkably, after the neurostimulator implantation, 80% of his daytime seizures were reduced. The neurostimulators were used to be placed in the chest to manage childhood epilepsy . This is the first time a neurostimulator was implanted in the skull to treat childhood epilepsy. Researchers emphasized…
