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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2010
Peter A. Tass, Munich, DE;
Birgit Utako Barnikol, Titz, DE;
Christian Hauptmann, Stolberg, DE;
Karim Haroud, Chavannes-sur-Moudon/Vd, CH;
Jean-christophe Roulet, Ligniéres/NE, CH;
Urban Schnell, Muenchenbuchsee/Be, CH;
Peter A. Tass, Munich, DE;
Birgit Utako Barnikol, Titz, DE;
Christian Hauptmann, Stolberg, DE;
Karim Haroud, Chavannes-sur-Moudon/Vd, CH;
Jean-Christophe Roulet, Ligniéres/NE, CH;
Urban Schnell, Muenchenbuchsee/Be, CH;
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, DE;
Universitaet zu Koeln, Cologne, DE;
Abstract
A device and method for providing stimulation signals that reset the phase of the neuronal activity of neurons in a patient's brain. The device includes a control unit; and a stimulation unit that has a plurality of stimulation elements, and each stimulation element generates visual stimulation signals that reset the phase of the neuronal activity of the neurons when the signals are taken up via an eye of a patient and transmitted to neurons that are exhibiting a pathologically synchronous and oscillatory neuronal activity. The control unit is further capable of actuating the stimulation unit such that the stimulation elements generate the visual stimulation signals with a time offset in respect to one another and/or with differing phase and/or with differing polarity.