Getting ahead of epilepsy
10th August 2012
By Megan Howe
Could developments in medical bionics lead researchers to the ‘Holy Grail’ for treating epilepsy?

You've no doubt heard about the bionic eye and the cochlear implant — some of the most famous developments in the fast-growing world of medical bionics.
But Professor Mark Cook is quietly optimistic that an even bigger group of patients — the 15 million people worldwide whose lives are disabled by uncontrolled epilepsy — have reason to hope they could be offered new, more effective therapies in the not