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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2010
Peter A. Tass, Munich, DE;
Marcus Goetz, Heidelberg, DE;
Bernhard Pelz, Heidelberg, DE;
Stefan Fischer, Heidelberg, DE;
Jean-christophe Roulet, Ligniéres/Ne, CH;
Urban Schnell, Muenchenbuchsee/Be, CH;
Peter A. Tass, Munich, DE;
Marcus Goetz, Heidelberg, DE;
Bernhard Pelz, Heidelberg, DE;
Stefan Fischer, Heidelberg, DE;
Jean-Christophe Roulet, Ligniéres/Ne, CH;
Urban Schnell, Muenchenbuchsee/Be, CH;
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, DE;
ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Cologne, DE;
Abstract
A device with a control unit and a plurality of stimulation units configured to be implanted in the body of a patient and generate optical stimuli, wherein the optical stimuli reset the phase of the neuronal activity of the neurons during the stimulation of neurons exhibiting abnormally synchronous and oscillatory neuronal activity, and the control unit is configured to actuate the stimulation units such that at least two of the stimulation units reset the phases of the respectively stimulated neurons at different times.