Device for the desynchronization of neuronal brain activity

US8463386B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH · DE

Inventor

• Peter Alexander Tass · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 16, 2011
• Grant date: Jun 11, 2013
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N1/36135
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for desynchronizing neuronal brain activity involving a neuron population firing in a synchronized manner at a pathological frequency. The device includes an electrode configured to generate stimuli that stimulate the neuron population; and a control unit configured to control the electrode to generate the stimuli in sequence, wherein the stimuli succeed each other with a predetermined frequency f. The predetermined frequency f is substantially equal to g×n/m, where g is the pathological frequency, and n and m are integers.