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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joachim F Wernicke, League City, TX (US);
Reese S Terry, Jr, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Cyberonics, Inc., Webster, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
607 45 ; 607 59 ; 607 72 ; 607118 ; 607 62 ;
Abstract
A method of treating symptoms of dementia, including cortical dementia, subcortical dementia, and multi-infarct dementia, includes selecting a patient suffering from dementia, and applying to the patient's vagus nerve an electrical stimulation signal having parameter values selected to modulate the electrical activity of the vagus nerve in a manner to modulate the activity of preselected portions of the reticular activating system of the brain stem.
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