Reaching Brain Through the Cheek

Surgical destruction of a small area where seizures originate is invasive, dangerous and has a long recovery period, where the doctors have to drill through the skull deep into the brain. Five years ago, a team of Vanderbilt engineers wondered: Is it possible to address epileptic seizures in a less invasive way? They decided it would be possible. Because the area of the brain involved is the hippocampus, which is located at the bottom of the brain, they could develop ...