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Method of treating psychiatric diseases by neuromodulation within the dorsomedial thalamus

  • US 6,609,030 B1
  • Filed: 02/24/2000
  • Issued: 08/19/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of determining the proper therapeutic treatment for, and subsequently treating a specific psychiatric disorder comprising the steps of:

  • identifying a large sampling of patients, each exhibiting a common specific psychiatric disorder;

    identifying which common region of the thalamus exhibits pathological electrical during manifestations of the specific psychiatric disorder, said common region thereafter constituting a predetermined treatment site;

    surgically implanting a catheter in the brain of each of said patients so that a distal end thereof lies in communication with the predetermined treatment site in the thalamus of the brain;

    coupling a proximal end of said catheter to a fluid medicine delivery pump; and

    operating said fluid medicine delivery pump to stimulate said predetermined treatment site in the thalamus of the brain, whereby the effects of psychiatric disorder are reduced.

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