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New Tech Targets Epilepsy With Lasers, Robots

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Epilepsy

Technology is letting doctors and scientists study the brain's electrical activity. Doctors use an array of electrodes that surgeons place under the skull, on the surface of the brain. The accuracy of this approach depends on how many electrodes are in the array. So at UCSD, they've created a small scale factory to make better arrays.

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