. >> the simple things we take for granted are all precious gifts to modesto resident gina arata outside. >> but even walking, putting on your own shoes, buttoning your pants, simple things that she was not able to do just a few years ago, a devastating car accident in 2001 left arata with burst lungs and brain bruising and searing. >> she was in a coma for 14 days when she woke up, the law school hopeful was no longer able to comprehend books or even normal conversations like, you could tell me something, then i would ask you the same question in like five minutes later, and they'd be like, i answered that question already for you. >> but i had no idea, no recollect. >> in 2018, arata was presented with a chance to fix the problem she was having through stanford medicine, a first of its kind procedure that would surgically implanted device deep into her brain to stimulate and activate the neural networks that were subdued by the car crash. stanford's jaime henderson said brain functions can be dimmed after traumatic injury and these sensors turn the dimmer switch back up for arata. >> w