IMAGING TECHNIQUES TO CURE EPILEPSY
There are at least three million Americans that have epilepsy and 30 percent of this has seizures that cannot be controlled by medicine. But as of now, new imaging techniques have stridently increased the number of people who are possible candidate for epilepsy surgery. And the children have more benefits on this since their brain is still flexible. Surgery is the only way to completely cure epilepsy but this is crucial because many things can happen inside your brain during surgery that can cause further damages. And to accurately map the brain during surgeries, surgeons place dozens of tiny electrodes directly on the surface of the brain and these sensors allow a digital brain wave machine to generate a high-tech image of what is happening inside the brain.
