Patent ID: 8024049
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method for providing deep brain stimulation (DBS), consisting of the steps of: providing an implantable pulse stimulator with battery supply and miniaturized controller within one single self-contained elongated probe for sensing and stimulating to eliminate spatially separated detection and stimulation electrodes, the providing step includes: imbedding only the single implantable lead line which extends beneath the one single self-contained probe below a single opening in the skull of the user into one single area of a brain as a self-contained bi-directional conduit for deep brain stimulation; capping the skull with the single cylindrical disc housing and the top disc cover so that the single cylindrical disc housing with the top disc cover is positioned as a cap on top of the skull above the single opening in the skull; covering the cylindrical disc housing and the top disc cover with the scalp so that the height of the cylindrical disc housing and the top disc cover protrudes so as to not cause a noticeable protrusion on the head of the user; sensing an initiation of an unwanted electro-physiologically signaled event of an impulse burst in an area of the brain of the user caused by a condition using one of the electrodes, wherein the sensing of the initiation includes the steps of: