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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2015
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Alik S. Widge, Somerville, MA (US);
Thilo Deckersbach, Boston, MA (US);
Darin Dougherty, Boston, MA (US);
Emad Eskandar, Nahant, MA (US);
Kristen Ellard, Boston, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for diagnosing mental or emotional disorders is disclosed. An affective BCI component is incorporated into a closed loop, symptom—responsive psychiatric DBS system. A series of input data related to a brain of the patient is acquired while the patient performs a battery of behavioral tasks. From the patient's performance on the task battery, the system identifies what is abnormal for that individual patient in terms of functional domains. Patient-specific behavioral measurements are then linked to patterns of activation and de-activation across different brain regions, identifying specific structures that are the source of the patient's individual impairment.