Stimulating the brain Tales of a Children's Doctor

In this episode we meet Charlie, a young man with an extremely severe epilepsy which was not responding to optimal anti-epileptic drug therapy. His mother was an amazing lady who searched far and wide for options to help treat his epilepsy. She learned about a way of treating epilepsy using a device called a Vagus Nerve Stimulator about the same time that I came across it at an epilepsy meeting. At the time only one child in the UK had had the device implanted and we had to ...