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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2003
Ali Rezai, Bratenhal, OH (US);
Jorge Alvaro Gonzalez-martinez, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Ashwini Sharan, Mt. Laurel, NJ (US);
Ali Rezai, Bratenhal, OH (US);
Jorge Alvaro Gonzalez-Martinez, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Ashwini Sharan, Mt. Laurel, NJ (US);
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A method of affecting a sleep disorder in a subject having the sleep disorder and a method of affecting a normal awakeness-sleep cycle in a subject having an abnormal awakeness-sleep cycle, said methods comprising: a) identifying at least one nucleus in a brain of the subject, said nucleus being a nucleus of the sleep circuitry of the brain; and b) stimulating the at least one identified nucleus so as to modulate the nucleus, thereby affecting the sleep disorder.