{"id":15581,"date":"2024-08-17T11:38:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T09:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/brain-implants-to-treat-epilepsy-arthritis-or-even-incontinence-they-may-be-closer-than-you-think\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T09:38:33","slug":"brain-implants-to-treat-epilepsy-arthritis-or-even-incontinence-they-may-be-closer-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/brain-implants-to-treat-epilepsy-arthritis-or-even-incontinence-they-may-be-closer-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain implants to treat epilepsy, arthritis, or even incontinence? They may be closer than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"

Startups around the world are engaging in clinical trials in a sector that could change lives \u2013 and be worth more than \u00a315bn by the 2030s<\/p>\n

Oran Knowlson, a British teenager with a severe type of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, became the first person in the world to trial a new brain implant<\/a> last October, with phenomenal results \u2013 his daytime seizures were reduced by 80%.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s had a huge impact on his life and has prevented him from having the falls and injuring himself that he was having before,\u201d says Martin Tisdall, a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) in London, who implanted the device. \u201cHis mother was talking about how he\u2019s had such a improvement in his quality of life, but also in his cognition: he\u2019s more alert and more engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nStartups around the world are engaging in clinical trials in a sector that could change lives \u2013 and be worth more than \u00a315bn by the 2030s
\nOran Knowlson, a British teenager with a severe type of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, became the first person in the world to trial a new brain implant last October, with phenomenal results \u2013 his daytime seizures were reduced by 80%.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s had a huge impact on his life and has prevented him from having the falls and injuring himself that he was having before,\u201d says Martin Tisdall, a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) in London, who implanted the device. \u201cHis mother was talking about how he\u2019s had such a improvement in his quality of life, but also in his cognition: he\u2019s more alert and more engaged.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Startups around the world are engaging in clinical trials in a sector that could change lives \u2013 and be worth more than \u00a315bn by the 2030s Oran Knowlson, a British teenager with a severe type of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, became the first person in the world to trial a new brain implant last October, …<\/p>\n

Brain implants to treat epilepsy, arthritis, or even incontinence? They may be closer than you think<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}