Higher success rate for epilepsy brain surgery

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In some cases where medication fails to provide relief, patients with severe epilepsy may choose to undergo brain surgery—a radical form of treatment, and success is by no means guaranteed. That is why researchers from the University of Twente and Utrecht UMC are joining forces to increase the procedure’s effectiveness. Their work, which is based on computer models of the human brain, has earned them a ZonMw “Parelbeurs’ (Pearl Grant).

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