Patent ID: 7326181
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: A61B,A61N

Abstract:
1. A method for evoking neuroselective responses from nervous tissue using electronic or electromagnetic stimulation that does not leave a sufficient voltage or electrical artifact on the tissue being stimulated that would interfere or prevent a monitoring system from recording the physiological response and which is also substantially painless in case the nervous tissue is in a living organism, or a method of in situ monitoring of nerve responses for evaluating the response to a therapeutic intervention, or a method for therapeutic nervous tissue stimulation including augmenting or attenuating normal or impaired nerve function, comprising attaching an electrode of an apparatus to the nervous tissue, providing a stimulation that has a single 180° or 360° sine waveform, or a sine wave form with a duration of less than 200 ms, with said apparatus, and monitoring the physiological response of the nervous tissue with said apparatus.