Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Stimulating Results?
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Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy
Ignited by the efficacy and commercial success of cardiac devices, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and biomedical engineers are collaborating to develop implantable brain devices to arrest, contain, and preempt seizures before they cause clinical symptoms. New devices in development deliver electrical stimulation or pharmacologic agents locally to the epileptic focus or deep nuclei to modulate sei...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epilepsy Currents
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1535-7597,1535-7511
DOI: 10.1111/j.1535-7511.2006.00142.x