{"id":1860,"date":"2012-03-27T06:37:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:52:38","slug":"ashley-blackman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/ashley-blackman\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird science could fix young Ashley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1861\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/ashley-blackman\/641963-ashley-blackman\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1861\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1861\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/641963-ashley-blackman-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Ashley Blackman. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For five days and five nights six-year-old Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH)\u00a0patient Ashley Blackman has had electrodes glued to his head recording his brain activity and transmitting it to a computer so doctors could find out exactly where in his brain his epilepsy seizures were coming from.<\/p>\n<p>RCH\u00a0director of neurology Associate Professor Andrew Kornberg said if the spot was found, it could be possible to surgically remove that part of his brain, and permanently stop his seizures.<\/p>\n<p>The result&#8217;s of Ashley&#8217;s EEG monitoring, which a handful of children have each week at the hospital, would be known in a fortnight, Assoc Prof Kornberg said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ashley Blackman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/weird-science-could-fix-ashley\/story-fn7x8me2-1226310743830\">Click here <\/a>to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For five days and five nights six-year-old Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) patient Ashley Blackman has had electrodes glued to his head recording his brain activity so doctors could find out exactly where in his brain his epilepsy seizures were coming from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}