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Apparatus and method for stimulation of biological tissue

  • US 8,929,979 B2
  • Filed: 06/18/2007
  • Issued: 01/06/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for stimulating human neural tissue of a patient to treat an ailment comprising:

  • non-invasively applying an electrcial energy source transcranially to a region of human neural tissue beneath skin to transcranially generate an electric field of less than 100,000 Hz in said tissue; and

    altering the permittivity of said human neural tissue beneath the skin relative to said electrical energy source by non-invasively applying a second energy source transcranially thereby to generate a current in said human neural tissue that provides a treatment that affects the ailment.

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