Mark Cook, 24, of Braddons Hill Road East, Torquay, laughed "uncontrollably" during the incident in April, Torbay Magistrates' Court was told.

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Prof Mark Cook, from the University of Melbourne, said if the technology could be proven if could help remove the unpredictable nature of epilepsy.

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"There has got to be very rigorous documentation that it lives up to the quality of that name, " said Mark Cook, an animal-sciences professor and chairman of the university committee for the faculty senate at the Madison campus.

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