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unbelievable. how is this done? joining us now is dr. natalie. a physician at nyu. the medical center there. doctor, i mean, that s of course a touching piece of video. but it also raises questions. can deafness be cured? this is a procedure that s new for children. this brainstem auditory implant which is what it is called has been around for a number of decades. the typical spror something called cochlear implant. that didn t work for this little boy. exactly they did that what he is missing is actually something called the cochlear nerve, the auditory nerve which is transmitting a signal from the inner ear to the part of the brain called the brainstem that s responsible for the motor and sensory innervation of the face and neck. so they tried the cochlear implant on him to see if that would work and it didn t. what they have done is surgically implant electrodes into the brainstem and then they place an external like speech processor on the skin. and that transmits these so

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