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CNN CNN Newsroom June 22, 2013 16:34:00

The case of grayson. instead, the doctor essentially put an implant that goes straight to where that sound should go. it s called the cochlear nucleus. it s on the brain stem. you don t need to remember the names here. essentially they re recreating part of the central nervous system so he can take that sound and actually hear. now, the goal obviously is to see how much sense he can make of that sound. we know he s listening to music and will turn it up when he sees the radio or something like that. the doctors are very optimistic he ll be able to process that sound, understand it, turn in the language and start expressing himself in that way as well. that was the goal for them. so far it looks like it s working. he s the first kid in the country to have an auditory brain stem implant. there are nine more children who have been approved for this. we ll keep an eye on it, fred. back to you. that is incredible. thanks so much, dr. sanjay gupta. mission accomplished. what a sweet, sweet ....

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CNN CNN Newsroom June 20, 2013 13:50:00

that just brings tears to your eyes. so tell us, the implant that was given to grayson, how exactly does it work? so this is it is an amazing story, carol, i m sorry. this is a brain stem implant, so typically what you think of with hearing, you have nerves that go from your ear, basically, to your brain stem. that s what grayson doesn t have. so he has a little microphone outside that captures sounds and puts it in all these frequencies, and then takes it directly to the brain stem, this area over here to an area called the cochlear nucleus. you don t really need to remember that. just know it s going directly to the brain stem and transmitted to sounds that he can process and understand and hopefully understand language at some point. that s the goal. so he ll be able to remove the device at some point in his life? well, this part of it he can probably actually take off if he wants to. it s usually held in by magnets. ....

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