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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2013
Applicant:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/00 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36103 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system of compensating for a damaged brain node is disclosed. The damaged node is determined by techniques such as fMRI or neural recording. A healthy node that can compensate for the function of the damaged node is determined. A stimulating electrode is placed on at least one functioning node to bypass the activity from the damaged node to compensate for a missing node. The functioning node is then stimulated to compensate for the damaged node.