An electrode as wide as a human hair is the novel treatment for one's terrible epileptic seizures. Tens of thousands of patients might get rid of such excruciating fits of epilepsy through surgery performed in this country. For the time being, such an operation can be performed in a singular hospital in Romania, by one doctor only. Patients with severe epilepsy hope that this kind of surgery will soon be available throughout the country and that the nightmare tormenting them for years will finally come to an end.