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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2021
Applicant:
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventor:
Alik Widge, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61B 5/16 (2006.01); A61B 5/374 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36082 (2013.01); A61B 5/162 (2013.01); A61B 5/374 (2021.01); A61N 1/36139 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for controlling flexible behavior by stimulating a plurality of brain regions of a subject that includes receiving signals from a source region of the subject's brain, determining at least one signal indicative of out-of-range behavioral inflexibility from the source region in a predetermined frequency band and delivering at least one stimulation pulse to at least one target region of the subject's brain based on the at least one signal.