Teen is youngest in Colorado to try neural implant to stop seizures: “Her brain has kind of calmed down”

Because Kennady’s seizures aren’t coming from just one part of the brain, the team at Children’s placed the electrodes in a “relay station” that sends signals between the rest of the body and the brain, influencing electrical activity in a larger area, said Allyson Alexander, an assistant professor of pediatric neurosurgery at the hospital [and CU School of Medicine] who spoke with the family’s permission.