Epilepsy and deep brain stimulation - Oran’s story

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Thirteen-year-old Oran Knowlson from Somerset has severe epilepsy. His family say multiple seizures a day have robbed him of his childhood. Now, in a world first, surgeons have implanted electrodes in his brain to try to bring them under control. For this episode of 5 Minutes On, the BBC's Medical Editor Fergus Walsh has been to meet Oran and his family to find out whether the radical treatment has given him his life back. Image credit: Knowlson family handout.