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Treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders by nerve stimulation

  • US 5,299,569 A
  • Filed: 05/03/1991
  • Issued: 04/05/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/03/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of treating patients with neuopsychiatric disorders, which includesselecting a patient suffering form a neuropsychiatric disorder,determining the type of neuropsychiatric disorder exhibited by the patient, andselectively applying a predetermined electrical stimulus to the patient'"'"'s vagus nerve for modulating the electrical activity thereof in a manner to alleviate the symptoms of the neuropsychiatric disorder exhibited by the patient being treated.

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