Device for effective invasive desynchronizing neurostimulation

US10617869B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Alexander Tass · Munich, DE
• Oleksandr Popovych · Lehrte, DE
• Markos Xenakis · Athens, GR

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 2015
• Grant date: Apr 14, 2020
• Expiry date: Jul 9, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N2005/0629
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device that suppresses a pathological synchronous and oscillatory neuron activity, and includes a non-invasive stimulation unit implantable in a patient, for stimulation, using electrical and/or optical stimuli, of neurons in the patient's brain and/or spinal cord, where those neurons are showing pathologically synchronous and oscillatory neuron activity, and the stimuli are deigned to suppress are this activity when administered to the patient. Moreover, a measuring unit records measurement signals reflecting the neuron activity of the stimulated neurons and a control and analysis unit controls the stimulation unit to administer stimuli, check the success of stimulation based on the measurement, and, if the stimulation success is not sufficient, insert one or more stimulation breaks in the application of the stimuli or extend one or more stimulation breaks, where no stimuli that could suppress the pathological synchronous and oscillatory neuron activity are applied during the stimulation breaks.