American researchers are working on a prototype that is capable of performing brain surgery for epilepsy patients safer and less invasive. Not all patients with epilepsy can control their attacks through medication, so some have to resort to brain surgery. This option is invasive and requires that the patient part of the brain is removed, disconnected or stimulated, with the consequent recovery may take three months.
Now, researchers at Vanderbilt University have announced that they have spent the last five years to develop a robot that is able to do this surgery for a faster, less invasive and requires less recovery time. According to CNet, this robot was created by David Comber and Eric Barth, student and professor, respectively, mechanical engineering, and can enter the brain by inserting a needle 1.14 mm on the cheek of the patient, which prevents puncture the skull . Note that this equipment must be operated from a machine MRIs.
The next step will be to test the robot in cadavers, and the researchers hope to have ready to be in the operating room equipment within a decade.
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