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Device and method for visual stimulation

US9302069B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignees

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH · DE
UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN · DE

Inventors

Peter Alexander Tass · Munich, DE
Birgit Utako Barnikol · Titz, DE
Christian Hauptmann · Starnberg, DE
Karim Haroud · Yverdon-les-Bains, CH
Jean-Christophe Roulet · Neuchâtel, CH
Urban Schnell · Münchenbuchsee, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 3, 2010
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 6, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61N2005/073
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device and method for providing stimulation signals that reset the phase of the neuronal activity of neurons in a patient's brain. The device includes a control unit; and a stimulation unit that has a plurality of stimulation elements, and each stimulation element generates visual stimulation signals that reset the phase of the neuronal activity of the neurons when the signals are taken up via an eye of a patient and transmitted to neurons that are exhibiting a pathologically synchronous and oscillatory neuronal activity. The control unit is further capable of actuating the stimulation unit such that the stimulation elements generate the visual stimulation signals with a time offset in respect to one another and/or with differing phase and/or with differing polarity.

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