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Brain cooling to treat epilepsy moves closer to human application
December 2, 2012 by NewsBot
Neuroscientists have reported that chronic focal brain cooling suppresses seizures during wakefulness and achieves the effect without significantly affecting brain function. Their research, and that of others in the field, provides critical evidence that this approach to seizure control has reached a stage where testing in humans will soon be possible.