Medical treatment device and method for stimulating neurons of a patent to suppress a pathologically synchronous activity thereof
AssigneeGretap AG
InventorAlexander Peter Tass
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Abstract
The present invention pertains to a medical treatment device (10) for stimulating neurons of a patient to suppress a pathologically synchronous activity of the neurons. The device (10) comprises a non-invasive stimulation unit (12) configured for simultaneously administering at least one acoustic stimulus and at least one non-acoustic stimulus to a patient's body, each of which is configured to suppress the pathologically synchronous activity when being administered to the patient's body.
Claims15
Medical treatment device for stimulating neurons of a patient to suppress a pathologically synchronous activity of the neurons, comprising a non-invasive stimulation unit configured for simultaneously administering at least one acoustic stimulus and at least one non-acoustic stimulus to a patient's body, each of which is configured to suppress the pathologically synchronous activity when being administered to the patient's body.
Medical treatment device according to any one of claims 1 to 14, wherein a control unit of the stimulation unit is configured to operate the stimulation unit in:
- a first operating mode in which the generation of the acoustic stimuli is linked to the generation of the non-acoustic stimuli, and
- a second operating mode in which the generation of the acoustic stimuli is decoupled from the generation of the non-acoustic stimuli.
Medical treatment method for stimulating neurons of a patient to suppress a pathologically synchronous activity of the neurons, comprising the step of non-invasively and simultaneously administer at least one acoustic stimulus and at least one non-acoustic stimulus to a patient's body, each of which is configured to suppress the pathologically synchronous activity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.