{"id":191702,"date":"2024-06-24T18:22:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/uk-boy-has-brain-implant-fitted-to-control-epilepsy-seizures-in-world-first"},"modified":"2024-06-24T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:22:42","slug":"uk-boy-has-brain-implant-fitted-to-control-epilepsy-seizures-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/uk-boy-has-brain-implant-fitted-to-control-epilepsy-seizures-in-world-first","title":{"rendered":"UK boy has brain implant fitted to control epilepsy seizures in world first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-boy-has-brain-implant-fitted-to-control-epilepsy-seizures-in-world-first2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A UK teenager with severe epilepsy has become the first person in the world to be fitted with a brain implant aimed at bringing seizures under control.<\/p>\n<p>Oran Knowlson\u2019s neurostimulator sits under the skull and sends electrical signals deep into the brain, reducing his daytime seizures by 80%.<\/p>\n<p>His\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>His mother, Justine, said that her son had been happier, chattier and had a much better quality of life since receiving the device. \u201cThe future looks hopeful, which I wouldn\u2019t have dreamed of saying six months ago,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Tisdall, a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon who led the surgical team at Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) in London, said: \u201cFor Oran and his family, epilepsy completely changed their lives and so to see him riding a horse and getting his independence back is absolutely astounding. We couldn\u2019t be happier to be part of their journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oran, who is 13 and lives in Somerset, had the surgery in October as part of a trial at Gosh in partnership with University College London, King\u2019s College hospital and the University of Oxford. Oran has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.org.uk\/info\/syndromes\/lennox-gastaut-syndrome\">Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, external<\/a>, a treatment-resistant form of epilepsy which he developed at the age of three.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/uk-boy-has-brain-implant-fitted-to-control-epilepsy-seizures-in-world-first\">Continue reading \u201cUK boy has brain implant fitted to control epilepsy seizures in world first\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK teenager with severe epilepsy has become the first person in the world to be fitted with a brain implant aimed at bringing seizures under control. Oran Knowlson\u2019s neurostimulator sits under the skull and sends electrical signals deep into the brain, reducing his daytime seizures by 80%. His\u2026 His mother, Justine, said that her [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}