Patents Assigned to ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH
  • Patent number: 8825167
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignees: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu Koeln
    Inventors: Peter A. Tass, Hans-Joachim Freund, Oleksandr Popovych, Birgit Utako Barnikol, Joel Niederhauser, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
  • Patent number: 8721695
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignees: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH
    Inventors: Peter A. Tass, Marcus Goetz, Bernhard Pelz, Stefan Fischer, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
  • Publication number: 20130190663
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicants: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH Juelich, Universitaet Zu Koeln, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH
    Inventors: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu Koeln
  • Patent number: 8423144
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu Koeln
    Inventors: Peter Tass, Hans-Joachim Freund, Oleksandr Popovych, Birgit Utako Barnikol, Joel Niederhauser, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
  • Publication number: 20110009921
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicants: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu Koeln
    Inventors: Peter Tass, Hans-Joachim Freund, Oleksandr Popovych, Birgit Utako Barnikol, Joel Niederhauser, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
  • Publication number: 20100331912
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicants: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH, Universitaet Zu Koeln
    Inventors: Peter A. Tass, Birgit Utako Barnikol, Christian Hauptmann, Karim Haroud, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell
  • Publication number: 20100324631
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicants: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, ANM Adaptive Neuromodulation GmbH
    Inventors: Peter A. Tass, Marcus Goetz, Bernhard Pelz, Stefan Fischer, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell