{"id":193330,"date":"2024-07-23T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/child-patient-receives-worlds-first-brain-implant-for-rare-form-of-epilepsy"},"modified":"2024-07-23T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T07:24:07","slug":"child-patient-receives-worlds-first-brain-implant-for-rare-form-of-epilepsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/child-patient-receives-worlds-first-brain-implant-for-rare-form-of-epilepsy","title":{"rendered":"Child Patient Receives World\u2019s First Brain Implant For Rare Form Of Epilepsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/child-patient-receives-worlds-first-brain-implant-for-rare-form-of-epilepsy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 13-year-old boy named Oran Knowlson has become the world\u2019s first patient to test out a brain stimulation implant to treat severe epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p>Knowlson was sometimes having hundreds of seizures per day before the device was fitted. His family has stated that he\u2019s already seeing positive changes compared to his condition before implanting the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-year-old boy named Oran Knowlson has become the world\u2019s first patient to test out a brain stimulation implant to treat severe epilepsy. Knowlson was sometimes having hundreds of seizures per day before the device was fitted. His family has stated that he\u2019s already seeing positive changes compared to his condition before implanting the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193330","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\/193330","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}