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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...
>> 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. ju...