William Mebane
Marcia Kebbon, Plum Reps
Kevin Lightner, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City. Can Preventing Seizures Alter the Course of Autism? September 2019. 12-year-old Kevin Lightner has autism and has had seizures since he was 8 years old. Neurosurgeon Saadi Ghatan implanted a ‘responsive neurostimulation device’ that will learn to recognize what kind of brain activity precedes Kevin’s seizures and discharge electrical pulses to prevent them.
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