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Electrical treatment of alzheimer's disease

  • US 9,775,996 B2
  • Filed: 03/08/2017
  • Issued: 10/03/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus comprising:

  • midplane treatment electrodes, configured to be disposed over a superior sagittal sinus, outside and in electrical contact with a skull of a head of a subject identified as at risk of or suffering from Alzheimer'"'"'s disease;

    lateral treatment electrodes, configured to be disposed between 1 and 12 cm of a sagittal midplane of the skull; and

    control circuitry, which is configured to treat the subject by electroosmotically driving fluid from a subarachnoid space to the superior sagittal sinus, by applying one or more treatment currents between (a) one or more of the midplane treatment electrodes and (b) one or more of the lateral treatment electrodes.

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