Bionic aid against epilepsy
Researchers at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital are working with the Bionic Ear Institute to investigate new treatments for epilepsy by identifying electrical signals that could prevent seizures through interrupting epilepsy wave patterns.
Professor Mark Cook, the hospital’s director of clinical neuroscience and neurological research, said the goal was to build a device capable of detecting and treating seizures by either electrical stimulation or the delivery of drugs to the affected part of the brain.
“We hope that by the end of the three-year project we will have the skills necessary to put a device together, but there are lots of technological and commercial aspects to that,” he said.
