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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
May. 26, 2006
Peter Tass, Titz, DE;
Oleksandr Popovych, Düren, DE;
Christian Hauptmann, Stolberg, DE;
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to an apparatus for desynchronization of neural illness-synchronous brain activity in which the activities in at least two subareas of a brain area or at least two functionally associated brain areas are stimulated by means of at least two electrodes. In the case of a person with an illness, desynchronization therapy suppresses symptoms in the relevant neuron population. The feedback stimulation signal, that is to say the measured, time-delayed and process neural activity, is used as an individual stimulus. This results in self-regulated, demand control of the amplitude of the stimulation signal, thus minimizing the intensity of the stimulation stimuli automatically after successful desynchronization. The apparatus has at least two stimulation electrodes and at least one sensor, which are driven by a controller such that they result in desynchronization in their local environment.