Transcranial magnetic stimulation system and methods

A method for providing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (“TMS”) to a patient, the method comprising:

• providing a head mount for disposition on a head of a patient, the head mount comprising a plurality of points for releasably mounting a plurality of magnetic device assemblies, each magnetic device assembly comprising a magnet and an actuator device for selectively providing a rapidly changing magnetic field capable of inducing weak electric currents in a brain of the patient so as to apply a treatment that modifies natural electrical activity of the brain of the patient;
• positioning the head mount on the head of the patient in conjunction with a selected number of the plurality of magnetic device assemblies on the head mount at selected locations;
• generating one or more treatment protocol units, by assembling a series of key-value pairs into a data structure held in a memory of a processor, wherein data values of the data structure are used to instruct all or a portion of the magnetic assembly devices to generate a specific series of electric fields within the brain of the patient corresponding to one or more operational parameters for the plurality of magnetic assembly devices;
• validating the generated one or more treatment protocol units against threshold value for at least one of the series of key-values pairs;
• assembling two or more validated treatment protocol units into a treatment protocol for execution by a programmable processor, the programmable processor operative to generate a control signal utilizing the two or more validated treatment protocol units;
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• providing a rapidly changing magnetic field with at least one of the magnet assemblies in accordance with the treatment protocol and in response to receipt of the control signal.

A transcranial magnetic stimulation (“TMS”) system comprising:

• a plurality of magnetic assembly devices for deployment around a cranium of a patient, each of the plurality of magnetic assembly devices having at least one magnet and being configured to rotate the at least one magnet at one of a specific frequency or frequencies in response to receipt of a control signal addressed to at least one of the plurality of magnetic assembly devices and monitor, through one or more sensors, one or more operational parameters associated with the plurality of magnetic assembly devices;
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• a processor in communication with a memory and configured by program code executing thereon to:
• generate one or more treatment protocol units, by assembling a series of key-value pairs into a data structure, wherein data values of the data structure are used to instruct all or a portion of the magnetic assembly devices to generate a series of electric fields within a brain of the patient corresponding to one or more operational parameters of the magnetic assembly devices wherein a given generated treatment protocol unit identifies data corresponding to at least a rotational frequency,
• validate the generated one or more treatment protocol units against threshold value for at least one of the series of key-values pairs,
• generate a control signal using at least information contained in at least two generated treatment protocol units,
• energize at least one of the plurality of magnetic assembly devices over a period of time to cause the at least one of the magnet of the at least one of the plurality of magnetic assembly to actuate according to the control signal, and
• monitor the patient in response to energizing at least one of the plurality of magnetic assembly devices.