British teen receives world's first epilepsy device implant

It took seven hours for neurosurgeons at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital to fit this brain implant.

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00:00A British teenager has become the first child in the world to receive a brain implant to

00:07control epileptic seizures. Doctors placed a neurostimulator under his skull, which sends

00:14electrical signals into his brain and reduces seizures by up to 80 percent. Thirteen-year-old

00:20Oran Nolson was three years old when he was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy, having

00:26up to 300 seizures a day. His mum said the treatment has given her hope.

00:34Oran is starting to re-emerge. I feel like I'm getting my child back a little bit, bit

00:40by bit. It's going to take time, but for the first time in ten years we actually have hope.

00:49Three more children will soon take part in the UK trial, which has been described as

00:53a game-changer by experts.