First UK trial of Deep Brain Stimulation for children with epilepsy begins

A teenager who is the first patient to take part in a UCL-sponsored clinical trial involving Martin Tisdall (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) to use deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat epilepsy has seen his daytime seizures reduce by 80%.

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