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The Brain Has a Warning System for Its Own Electrical Misfires, and We Can Now Read It

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Every second of the day, in roughly half of the 50 million people living with epilepsy, the brain stages tiny rebellions. Not seizures, exactly, but something almost as disruptive: brief electrical storms that flare and die so fast most patients never consciously notice them. What they do notice, over time, is that words keep slipping away mid-sentence, that following a conversation takes more effort than it should, that sleep never quite feels restorative. These millisecond glitches, known as i

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