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People with severe head injury are helped by brain implants
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Stanford University researchers have found that implanting deep brain stimulation can improve the functioning of a brain structure known as thalamus. “For some participants…improvements have been transformative, even many years after the injury,” said Jaimie Henderson, a neurosurgeon at Stanford University in California. The team used brain images and atlases to design treatment procedures for four men and one woman.
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