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7551964 |
Splanchnic nerve stimulation for treatment of obesity
A method for the treatment of obesity or other disorders by electrical activation or inhibition of the sympathetic nervous system is disclosed. This activation or inhibition can be accomplished by...
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7551956 |
Stimulation methodologies and apparatus for control of brain states
A system for accessing the brain of a subject to record and/or stimulate brain stares thereof. The system includes control means, first accessing means having a plurality of contact surfaces...
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7493171 |
Treatment of pathologic craving and aversion syndromes and eating disorders by electrical brain stimulation and/or drug infusion
Systems and methods for introducing one or more stimulating drugs and/or applying electrical stimulation to the brain to at least treat or prevent obesity and/or other eating disorders, as well as...
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7463929 |
Intelligent assisted control of living bodies
An apparatus and process for providing assisted control, direction, and other information to a living being through a stimulation-based interface.
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7463928 |
Identifying combinations of electrodes for neurostimulation therapy
A programmer allows a clinician to identify combinations of electrodes from within an electrode set implanted in a patient that enable delivery of desirable neurostimulation therapy by an...
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7440806 |
Systems and methods for treatment of diabetes by electrical brain stimulation and/or drug infusion
Systems and methods for introducing one or more stimulating drugs and/or applying electrical stimulation to the brain to at least treat or prevent diabetes uses at least one system control unit...
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7340306 |
Treatment of obesity by sub-diaphragmatic nerve stimulation
A method and apparatus for treating obese or other patients with compulsive overeating disorder includes unilaterally or bilaterally stimulating one or both of the left and right branches of a...
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7330753 |
Analysis of eating habits
Diet evaluation gastric apparatus ( 18 ) is provided, which detects when a patient ( 10 ) swallows, and detects the type and amount of matter ingested. The apparatus includes electrodes ( 74, 100 )...
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7200443 |
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator for appetite control
A method for the treatment of eating and gastrointestinal disorders through transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation of the sympathetic celiac ganglia and nerve pathways innervating the stomach.
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6950707 |
Systems and methods for treatment of obesity and eating disorders by electrical brain stimulation and/or drug infusion
Systems and methods for introducing one or more stimulating drugs and/or applying electrical stimulation to the brain to at least treat or prevent obesity and/or other eating disorders uses at...
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6879859 |
External pulse generator for adjunct (add-on) treatment of obesity, eating disorders, neurological, neuropsychiatric, and urological disorders
An external pulse generator comprising a primary coil and adapted to inductively couple to an implanted receiving means, is designed to deliver neuromodulation therapy for disorders comprising...
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6871098 |
Method for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder with electrical stimulation of the brain internal capsule
A method for treating a patient with an obsession, a compulsion, an anxiety or a depression disorder, comprising applying chronic electrical stimulation to at least a portion of the patient's...
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6762687 |
Biofeedback device for treating obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSDs)
A biofeedback device for treatment of certain obsessive compulsive spectrum and habit disorders including trichotillomania (hair pulling), onychophagia (nail biting), thumb-sucking, skin-scratching...
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6735477 |
Internal monitoring system with detection of food intake
A system is provided that includes a behavior detection unit for detecting behavior of the human, a reaction causing unit for causing a reaction in the human, and a control unit for controlling the...
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6334073 |
Internal monitoring and behavior control system
An open-loop internal monitoring system includes a plurality of internal radio transmitters, a plurality of external radio receivers, and a central processor for alerting a system monitor if a...
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6233488 |
Spinal cord stimulation as a treatment for addiction to nicotine and other chemical substances
A new method for suppressing chemical substance craving comprises an electrical stimulation of the spinal cord using one or more implantable leads containing at least two conducting electrodes. The...
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5871518 |
Smoking cessation lighter and method
A lighter for tobacco products suppresses the urge to smoke by operant conditioning. It delivers a shock to the user's hand when the lighter is extinguished. This generally happens when the first...
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5792210 |
Electrical tongue stimulator and method for addiction treatment
A method and therapeutic apparatus for treating addictions and maladies, such as cocaine addiction and the like. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus has a housing with a pair of exposed...
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5593432 |
Method for neurostimulation for pain alleviation
A method and apparatus for alleviating pain and the symptoms of withdrawal of a patient during detoxification. The apparatus generates and applies to the patient's mastoid processes a multiplicity...
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5578066 |
Device to discharge habitual finger sucking
An apparatus for discouraging habitual finger sucking by delivering a small current to an individual's tongue. An electrical current is delivered by two electrodes mounted within an adhesive band...
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5538503 |
Programmable apparatus for reducing substance dependency in transdermal drug delivery
An apparatus is described for the programmable iontophoretic or iontophoretic-ultrasonic (ionosonic) transdermal delivery of medication across the skin or other biological membrane. In one...
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5514175 |
Auricular electrical stimulator
Described is a low voltage, multipoint auricular stimulator which is lightweight, portable and unobtrusive for use by a patient to reduce or eliminate sensations of pain and anxiety and for...
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5458625 |
Transcutaneous nerve stimulation device and method for using same
A device for use in providing transcutaneous nerve stimulation and a related method of use are disclosed which may be utilized to stimulate superficial sprigs of the Vagal nerve located in the...
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5370672 |
Computer-controlled neurological stimulation system
Neurological stimulation alleviates chronic pain and other functional neurologic disorders by delivering electrical impulses to the nervous system of a patient. Within this setting, a computer...
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5342410 |
Apparatus and method for increasing the amplitude of P300 waves in the human brain
A cranial electrotherapy stimulation ("CES") device which generates periodic electrical signals is connected between the forehead and wrist area of a human being in order to affect electrical...
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5332401 |
Apparatus and method for transcranial electrotheraphy
An electrode for providing TCET, especially via the earlobes of the patient, comprises an electrical conductor for application to the skin, connected to a lead for supplying the TCET signal from a...
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5304211 |
Apparatus for administering electrical aversive stimulus and associated method
An apparatus for administering electrical aversive stimulus is provided. The apparatus includes a remote transmitter, a receiver/stimulator, and an electrode. The receiver/stimulator is activated...
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5218960 |
Electro-stimulation apparatus
Electro-stimulation apparatus comprises a self-contained housing including at least one energy source, a contact end for application against the skin of a user so as to transmit a series of...
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5152286 |
Method of microwave resonance therapy and device therefor
The method consists in affecting a biologically active zone characteristic of pathology treatment with low-intensity EHF electromagnetic radiation--representing continuous spectrum oscillations in...
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5012808 |
Pulse generation, parameter determination, and modification system
A pulse generation and tracking system for connection to an object or a subject under treatment therewith, the waveform being a train of repetitive complex pulses each pulse comprising a large...
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4841973 |
Electrical stimulators
A portable single or two channel, electrically energized device for applying a series of therapeutic pulse type electrical stimulations to a human body member including individual channel controls...
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4646744 |
Method and treatment with transcranially applied electrical signals
A method of applying an electrical signal transcranially includes the steps of generating a series of signal trains and applying the signal trains across the head of a subject, wherein each of the...
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4524773 |
Apparatus for inhibiting self-injurious behavior (SIB) in patients
An improved apparatus for inhibiting self-injurious behavior (SIB) in patients includes a stimulus module for generating and applying an aversive electrical stimulation to the patient's skin and a...
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4440160 |
Self-injurious behavior inhibiting system
An apparatus for preventing self-injurious behavior in patients is disclosed. The apparatus generally contains one or more sensor modules, which detect self-injurious blows, and a separate...
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4305402 |
Method for transcutaneous electrical stimulation
A method and apparatus for monitoring and obtaining actual bio-electrical characteristics of a subject, such as EEG, or determinants of the psycho-electro-physiological state of the subject, under...
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4120305 |
System for administering an electric shock
There is disclosed a self-protective system for administering an electrical shock to a would-be assailant by first establishing a low resistance path to the nervous system of the assailant and then...
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3998209 |
Snoring deconditioning system and method
Principle: Two long-standing, professionally accepted, experimental psychological teaching-learning procedures are applied in this invention, wherein Pavlovian (respondent) conditioning overlaps...
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3889163 |
Means to assist a person in overcoming habits
An article small enough to be carried by a person includes a source of power for inducing an electric shock in the person whenever it is consciously touched by the person to permit a shocking...
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3885576 |
Wrist band including a mercury switch to induce an electric shock
A wrist band including a normally open mercury switch is worn by a person so that when the person raises his arm to put a cigarette to his lips, for example, the mercury switch closes to connect a...
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3625222 |
BATON-TYPE ARREST DEVICE
A pair of needle electrodes which are slightly spaced and are adapted to pierce the skin are normally concealed into a cylindrical casing but projected to pierce the skin only when the casing is...
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ARREST DEVICE
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3482580 |
ANTI-SMOKING DEVICE
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3480010 |
ELECTRONIC SNORE DEPRESSOR
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3277892 |
Apparatus for correcting tongue thrust problems
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3164772 |
Portable means for repelling sharks utilizing pulse discharges through a dipole antenna
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