Brain surgery is notoriously difficult, after all your brain is responsible for managing the function of every other part of your body. But now neuroscientists in Switzerland say, extremely invasive brain surgery may not be needed in many cases moving forward, as they’ve developed a new way to monitor brain function by inserting a newly developed device through a tiny hole in the skull.
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00:00Brain surgery is notoriously dangerous.
00:05After all, your brain is responsible for managing the functions of every other part of your body.
00:10But now neuroscientists in Switzerland say,
00:12extremely invasive brain surgery may not be needed in many cases moving forward,
00:16as they've developed a new way to monitor brain function
00:19by inserting a newly developed device through a tiny hole in the skull.
00:22Here's Professor Stephanie LaCour, one of the device's developers, to explain.
00:26So we have developed soft electrode array designed to record information from the surface of the brain.
00:33And these electrodes are so soft that they can be inserted just between the surface of the brain and the skull.
00:39And this could find application for recording of epilepsy seizures.
00:44So how big is the hole? Only around one centimeter.
00:46They say one of the biggest challenges was finding the right material,
00:49explaining that they were initially approached by a neurosurgeon asking for a less invasive option,
00:53as current methods involve cutting a large portion of the skull and removing it,
00:57then placing electrodes individually.
00:59Now they simply drill a hole and insert the soft-bodied flower-like device,
01:03which is then articulated via a liquid pressure system,
01:06allowing them to fan out the petals, positioning each in the exact right position on the surface of the brain.
01:12These are places of the brain.
01:21Francesca LaCour Lovelesss
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