Brain electrode stimulation shows benefit for epilepsy in prospective randomized trials.

“another way of treating uh minimally invasive although it still requires a hole in the head is to put in an electrode and stimulate the brain so that uh was first used for treating Parkinson's disease very effective for medically intractable Parkinson's it's used to treat chronic pain recently it was shown to be beneficial uh for epilepsy in fact the two major trials prospective randomized trials that were done uh were led by uh Physicians uh neurologists at Stanford and showed the benefit of um stimulation of the brain to to treat a very difficult um epilepsy”