Patent ID: 11878173
Assignee: DUKE UNIVERSITY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 29:
30. A method of treating epilepsy or movement disorders in a human being comprising:
applying a non-regular pattern of electrical stimulation having a frequency range between 100 Hz and 200 Hz to a human being via an implanted lead in the human being's thalamus, subthalamus, or globus pallidus, wherein the non-regular pattern of stimulation comprises differing inter-pulse intervals between the pulses;
modeling and/or measuring oscillatory or synchronous activity in the human being;
quantitatively assessing how thalamus transmitted motor commands are generated based upon the applied non-regular pattern of electrical stimulation; and
generating a subsequent non-regular pattern of electrical stimulation based on the modeling and/or measured activity wherein the subsequent non-regular pattern of electrical stimulation comprise a plurality of pulses having non-regular, differing inter-pulse intervals between the pulses.