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Jason Howland

Mayo Clinic Minute: Using lasers on the brain to treat seizures

For roughly a third of people with epilepsy, medication does not control their seizures. Depending on where those seizures originate in the brain, laser therapy can be an option for adults and children.

It's treatment for epileptic seizures that uses a laser on the brain.

"LITT is 'laser interstitial thermal therapy,'" says Dr. Jamie Van Gompel, a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon.

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