Gully Foyle, here we come.
My son has had four surgeries, two for mapping and two to have scar tissue removed from his brain. Like Reed he's fairly bright but faces an uphill battle after graduation due to partial loss of eyesight & balance (both as a result of surgery).
After his first round of surgeries he didn't have any siezures for a year & a half, none. They did return however, & were becoming uncontrollable, and he had another round of surgeries this December and now has about one or two petit siezures daily, but that's better than the 150+ he had one day at the peak (prior to the 1st operation), actually a "low".
If an implant could solve the problem or even drastically reduce them for thousand of kids, that would be GREAT!
I had brain surgery when I was 18 for epilepsy and was one of the lucky ones. If I get enough sleep, I have no seizures now. The only side effect was loss of some peripheral vision and some memory loss, but it would be most excellent if they could do something like this rather than a right temporal lobectomy as I had done. I'm glad to see one more story that shows an epileptic is not necessarily stupid. I'm also a computer programmer. Guess that means we really don't use very much of our brains. :)
cool! Thanks for posting...bumpmark for later.
Here's hoping the USA catches up to Canada, et al., with things like rTMS.