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Method and apparatus for desynchronization of neural brain activity

US7974698B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH · DE

Inventors

Peter Alexander Tass · Munich, DE
Oleksandr Popovych · Lehrte, DE
Christian Hauptmann · Starnberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 26, 2006
Grant date	Jul 5, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 26, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61N1/36103
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to an apparatus for desynchronization of neural illness-synchronous brain activity in which the activities in at least two subareas of a brain area or at least two functionally associated brain areas are stimulated by means of at least two electrodes. In the case of a person with an illness, desynchronization therapy suppresses symptoms in the relevant neuron population. The feedback stimulation signal, that is to say the measured, time-delayed and process neural activity, is used as an individual stimulus. This results in self-regulated, demand control of the amplitude of the stimulation signal, thus minimizing the intensity of the stimulation stimuli automatically after successful desynchronization. The apparatus has at least two stimulation electrodes and at least one sensor, which are driven by a controller such that they result in desynchronization in their local environment.

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