Electronic Implant Might Stop Seizures

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It hit Haley Butler while she was driving - an odd feeling like dej vu. Then her right hand started tingling and began twirling around on its own.

"I couldn't stop my right hand," said Mrs. Butler, of Ideal, Ga. "I knew the radio was on. I could hear the music, and I understood the songs. But I couldn't get (the words) out."

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Electronic Implant Might Stop Seizures

She reached her mother's house.

"I was hyperventilating; I just couldn't quit crying," she said.

She was having seizures from a form of epilepsy that appears to affect the language area on the left side of the brain.

"I can talk now while I'm havin...

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