Therapeutic devices and methods for stimulating a patient's neurons to suppress their pathogenic synchronous activity

摘要

The present invention relates to a therapeutic device for stimulating a patient's neurons. The device is a first non-invasive stimulator for producing at least two different first stimuli to the patient's body and a second device for generating at least two different second stimuli to the patient's body. It includes a non-invasive stimulator and a control unit for selectively and intermittently operating the stimulator. In the first mode of operation, the control unit operates the first stimulator in a sequence of continuous operating periods so that the number n of the first stimuli simultaneously generated during the operating period are variously determined over the sequence. The second stimulator is activated to generate a second stimulus paired with the generation of at least a portion of the first stimulus. In the second mode of operation, the control unit is configured to activate the second stimulator to generate a second stimulus separated from the production of at least a portion of the first stimulus.