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US 2017/0281900 A1Published application
Personalized auditory-somatosensory stimulation to treat tinnitus
AssigneeThe Regents of the University of Michigan
InventorsSusan Shore, David Martel, Seth Koehler
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Abstract
Timed stimulation of both somatosensory system and auditory system is controlled, in such a manner, that an individual's brain activity is altered through spike-timing dependent plasticity, thereby reducing or removing tinnitus.
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A computer-implementable method of treating an auditory condition, the method comprising:
- identifying, in a bimodal stimulation computing system, bimodal stimulation parameters for timing, intervals, and/or ordering of a bimodal stimulation of a subject, wherein the bimodal stimulation comprises an auditory stimulation signal and a somatosensory stimulation signal, wherein the bimodal stimulation parameters comprise timing, intervals, and/or ordering of the auditory stimulation signal and the somatosensory stimulation signal and are identified to produce a reduction in an objective measure of neural correlates of the auditory condition in the subject;
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- treating, during a protocol mode, the subject, over a treatment window of time, by applying both the auditory stimulation signal to the auditory system of the subject using an audible signal generator and the somatosensory stimulation signal using a somatosensory signal generator, in accordance with the timing, intervals, and/or ordering of the bimodal stimulation parameters thereby treating the auditory condition of the subject.
A system of treating an auditory condition, the system comprising:
- a bimodal stimulation system, having a processor and a memory, and configured to:
- identify, in the bimodal stimulation system, bimodal stimulation parameters for timing, intervals, and/or ordering of a bimodal stimulation of a subject, wherein the bimodal stimulation comprises an auditory stimulation signal and a somatosensory stimulation signal, wherein the bimodal stimulation parameters comprise timing, intervals, and/or ordering of the auditory stimulation signal and the somatosensory stimulation signal and are identified to produce a reduction in an objective measure of neural correlates of the auditory condition in the subject;
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- treat, during a protocol mode, the subject, over a treatment window of time, by applying both the auditory stimulation signal to the auditory system of the subject using an audible signal generator and the somatosensory stimulation signal using a somatosensory signal generator, in accordance with the timing, intervals, and/or ordering of the bimodal stimulation parameters thereby treating the auditory condition of the subject.
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