Andrew Huberman· PhD
patients with epilepsy benefit from this all the time there has been a revolution in America it was in Europe before it was in America where we would do stereo encephalography which is basically like doing an EEG of patients with epilepsy but with invasive electrodes and we would Place tiny little wires less than a millimeter in diameter all throughout the brain into parts of the brain that we believe are involved in seizures and we would admit the patients to the hospital and figure out where the seizures were starting and propagating and then um you know we could stimulate these electrodes to see if there was a symptom that was important and I try to identify a region that we thought we could either remove surgically ablate with a laser or put a stimulator in it perhaps that's commonplace now for epilepsy um and it works extremely well and it's very safe of course it's still a brain procedure but the uh the complication rate is surprisingly low quite honestly for the amount of electors that we place