Implantable Thermoelectric Device Helps Epilepsy
This is actually a couple years old, but I stumbled across it today.
A team at Rensselaer and the Washington University of Medicine in St. Louis are developing a small, implantable thermoelectric device and heat pipe to cool specific portions of the brain and help inhibit epileptic seizures. The full story,
http://news.rpi.edu/campusnews/update.do
indicates in 2005 they were moving toward testing in primates.
A journal review article on the subject is available:
Rothman, S.M., et al., Focal cooling for epilepsy: an alternative therapy that might actually work. Epilepsy Behav, 2005. 7(2): p. 214-21.
and a pdf of the review is available online:
http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/bio5663/2006/Focal%20Cooling%20Epilepsy%20Behavior%20Review.pdf