Device for treating patients by brain stimulation, electronic component and use of the device and electronic component in medicine and medical treatment method
First Claim
1. A device for treating patients having means for stimulating brain regions, the device comprising:
- at least one electrode to stimulate a brain region, at least one sensor to measure an electrical signal, and control means for detecting the occurrence of a pathological feature of the electrical signal which was measured by the at least one sensor and, when the pathological feature occurs, delivers at least one component from the group of stimulus sequences (a) through (d), (a) a short high-frequency pulse train, (b) a short high-frequency pulse train followed by a further short high-frequency pulse train, (c) a low-frequency sequence of short high-frequency pulse trains followed by a high-frequency pulse train, or (d) a single pulse followed by a short high-frequency pulse train to the at least one electrode.
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Abstract
A device for treating patients by brain stimulation and related electronic component and use of the device and of the electronic component in a medical treatment method. To achieve the brain stimulation result, a device includes at least one electrode for stimulating a brain region, at least one sensor for measuring an electrical signal, a control system which can detect the occurrence of a pathological feature of the electrical signal which was measured by the sensor and, when the pathological feature occurs, delivers at least one component from a group of stimulus sequences (a) through (d): (a) a short high-frequency pulse train, (b) a resetting short high-frequency pulse train followed by a further desynchronizing short high-frequency pulse train, (c) a resetting low-frequency sequence of a high-frequency pulse train followed by a desynchronizing high-frequency pulse train, or (d) a resetting single pulse followed by a short desynchronizing high-frequency pulse train to the electrode.
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1. A device for treating patients having means for stimulating brain regions, the device comprising:
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at least one electrode to stimulate a brain region, at least one sensor to measure an electrical signal, and control means for detecting the occurrence of a pathological feature of the electrical signal which was measured by the at least one sensor and, when the pathological feature occurs, delivers at least one component from the group of stimulus sequences (a) through (d), (a) a short high-frequency pulse train, (b) a short high-frequency pulse train followed by a further short high-frequency pulse train, (c) a low-frequency sequence of short high-frequency pulse trains followed by a high-frequency pulse train, or (d) a single pulse followed by a short high-frequency pulse train to the at least one electrode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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8. An electronic component, comprising:
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a sensor; and
means for detecting the occurrence of a pathological feature of an electrical signal measured by the sensor and, when the pathological feature occurs, delivers at least one component from the group of control signals for (a) through (d), (a) a short high-frequency pulse train, (b) a short high-frequency pulse train followed by another short high-frequency pulse train, (c) a low-frequency sequence of short high-frequency pulse trains followed by a high-frequency pulse train, (d) a single pulse followed by a short high-frequency pulse train.
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14. A method for treating neurological and/or psychiatric diseases in which pathologically synchronous neural activity is present, the method comprising:
applying with the occurrence of a pathological feature, at least one component from the group of stimulus patterns (a) through (d), (a) a short high-frequency pulse train, (b) a resetting short high-frequency pulse train followed by a further desynchronizing short high-frequency pulse train, (c) a resetting low-frequency sequence of short high-frequency pulse trains followed by a desynchronizing high-frequency pulse train, or (d) a resetting single pulse followed by a short desynchronizing high-frequency pulse train. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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