Patents Assigned to ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH
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Patent number: 8825167Abstract: A device and method for desynchronizing a patient's neuronal brain activity involving a neuron population firing in a pathologically synchronized manner. The device includes a stimulation unit configured to generate an acoustic stimulation signal to stimulate the neuron population when the acoustic stimulation signal is aurally received by the patient. Furthermore, the acoustic stimulation signal has a first frequency and a second frequency, with the first frequency provided to reset the phase of the neuronal brain activity in a first sub-population of the stimulated neuron population, and the second frequency provided to reset the phase of the neuronal brain activity in a second sub-population of the stimulated neuron population.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignees: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu KoelnInventors: Peter A. Tass, Hans-Joachim Freund, Oleksandr Popovych, Birgit Utako Barnikol, Joel Niederhauser, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
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Patent number: 8721695Abstract: A device with a control unit and a plurality of stimulation units configured to be implanted in the body of a patient and generate optical stimuli, wherein the optical stimuli reset the phase of the neuronal activity of the neurons during the stimulation of neurons exhibiting abnormally synchronous and oscillatory neuronal activity, and the control unit is configured to actuate the stimulation units such that at least two of the stimulation units reset the phases of the respectively stimulated neurons at different times.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignees: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbHInventors: Peter A. Tass, Marcus Goetz, Bernhard Pelz, Stefan Fischer, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
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Publication number: 20130190663Abstract: A device and method for desynchronizing a patient's neuronal brain activity involving a neuron population firing in a pathologically synchronized manner. The device includes a stimulation unit configured to generate an acoustic stimulation signal to stimulate the neuron population when the acoustic stimulation signal is aurally received by the patient. Furthermore, the acoustic stimulation signal has a first frequency and a second frequency, with the first frequency provided to reset the phase of the neuronal brain activity in a first sub-population of the stimulated neuron population, and the second frequency provided to reset the phase of the neuronal brain activity in a second sub-population of the stimulated neuron population.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicants: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH Juelich, Universitaet Zu Koeln, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbHInventors: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu Koeln
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Patent number: 8423144Abstract: A device and method for desynchronizing a patient's neuronal brain activity involving a neuron population firing in a pathologically synchronized manner. The device includes a stimulation unit configured to generate an acoustic stimulation signal to stimulate the neuron population when the acoustic stimulation signal is aurally received by the patient. Furthermore, the acoustic stimulation signal has a first frequency and a second frequency, with the first frequency provided to reset the phase of the neuronal brain activity in a first sub-population of the stimulated neuron population, and the second frequency provided to reset the phase of the neuronal brain activity in a second sub-population of the stimulated neuron population.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignees: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu KoelnInventors: Peter Tass, Hans-Joachim Freund, Oleksandr Popovych, Birgit Utako Barnikol, Joel Niederhauser, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
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Publication number: 20110009921Abstract: A device and method for desynchronizing a patient's neuronal brain activity involving a neuron population firing in a pathologically synchronized manner. The device includes a stimulation unit configured to generate an acoustic stimulation signal to stimulate the neuron population when the acoustic stimulation signal is aurally received by the patient. Furthermore, the acoustic stimulation signal has a first frequency and a second frequency, with the first frequency provided to reset the phase of the neuronal brain activity in a first sub-population of the stimulated neuron population, and the second frequency provided to reset the phase of the neuronal brain activity in a second sub-population of the stimulated neuron population.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicants: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu KoelnInventors: Peter Tass, Hans-Joachim Freund, Oleksandr Popovych, Birgit Utako Barnikol, Joel Niederhauser, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
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Publication number: 20100331912Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicants: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu KoelnInventors: Peter A. Tass, Birgit Utako Barnikol, Christian Hauptmann, Karim Haroud, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
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Publication number: 20100324631Abstract: A device with a control unit and a plurality of stimulation units configured to be implanted in the body of a patient and generate optical stimuli, wherein the optical stimuli reset the phase of the neuronal activity of the neurons during the stimulation of neurons exhibiting abnormally synchronous and oscillatory neuronal activity, and the control unit is configured to actuate the stimulation units such that at least two of the stimulation units reset the phases of the respectively stimulated neurons at different times.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicants: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbHInventors: Peter A. Tass, Marcus Goetz, Bernhard Pelz, Stefan Fischer, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell