I had two grand mal seizures and I was diagnosed with epilepsy.

These brain electrodes can tell us more than just where the seizures happen.

So, I didn't have seizures, but I also have no memory of fourth through seventh, eighth grade.

After doctors are sure where the seizures come from in the brain, they can take the electrodes out.

Research shows that 50 percent of children, almost 50 percent of children diagnosed with autism are actually suffering from hidden brain seizures.

He was suffering from brain seizures that were impossible to see with the naked eye, but that were actually causing symptoms that mimicked those of autism.

And in experimental feedings to rodents and ferrets, we found that the animals exhibit symptoms never seen with flu seizures, central nervous system disorders, partial paralysis.

But the implications of being able to control seizures or epilepsy with light instead of drugs, and being able to target those specifically is a first step.

Some patients who don't respond well to the drugs can undergo a different treatment where the faulty part in their brain, the part that starts the seizures, is surgically removed.

I do have to say, somebody I read recently that van Gogh wasn't really necessarily psychotic, that he might have had temporal lobe seizures, and that might have caused his spurt of creativity, and I don't

And I will mention that I actually developed temporal lobe seizures a number of years ago, but it was during the time I was writing my last book, and some people say that book is quite different.

It can detect and terminate seizures before the clinical symptoms occur, provide stimulation only when needed, can be turned off if seizures disappear it has minimal side effects as a matter of fact, in all our clinical trials to date, we've seen no side effects in the 40 or so patients in whom it's been implanted and it's invisible, cosmetically hidden, so, if you have epilepsy and you have the device, no one will know it because you can't tell that it's there.