Research Backs Broad Use of Brain Probes in Epilepsy Patients

Rutgers University

Electrodes designed to collect research data while also locating epileptic seizures in the brain perform about as well as electrodes designed solely to locate seizures, according to Rutgers and UCLA researchers.

"The finding could increase the usage of these electrodes, which provide valuable information about how the brain works," said Yasunori Nagahama, director of pediatric epilepsy surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and lead author of a new study

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