Patent ID: 8897871
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61H,A61N

Abstract:
1. A method for stimulating human neural tissue beneath a human scalp of a patient to treat an ailment, the method comprising: providing a noninvasive transcranial neural stimulator comprising: a noninvasive transcranial electric stimulator comprising a non-inductive electric source capable of generating an electric field of less than 100,000 Hz across a region of human neural tissue beneath a human scalp; and a noninvasive transcranial ultrasound device capable of generating a mechanical field across the region of human neural tissue beneath the human scalp; applying the noninvasive transcranial neural stimulator, directly or indirectly, to a region of the human scalp; generating via the noninvasive transcranial neural stimulator an electric field of less than 100,000 Hz in human neural tissue beneath the region of the human scalp; generating via the noninvasive transcranial neural stimulator a mechanical field in the human neural tissue beneath the region of the human scalp to thereby alter the permittivity of said human neural tissue beneath the region of the human scalp relative to said electric field, whereby the alteration of the permittivity of said human neural tissue beneath the region of the scalp relative to said electric field generates a current in said human neural tissue beneath the region of the human scalp providing a treatment that affects the ailment.