Patent ID: 7949392

Claim:
A medical device system comprising: (a) a brain monitoring element for sensing activity of the brain and outputting a brain signal; (b) a cardiac monitoring element for sensing activity of the heart and outputting a cardiac signal; and (c) a processor in communication with the brain monitoring element and the cardiac monitoring element, the processor configured to: (i) receive the brain signal and obtain information identifying one or more neurological events in the brain signal; (ii) receive the cardiac signal and obtain information identifying one or more cardiac events in the cardiac signal; and (iii) compare the brain signal to the cardiac signal, wherein the processor being configured to compare the brain signal to the cardiac signal comprises the processor being configured to perform the following: (a) for each of the one or more neurological events, determining whether said neurological event is within a specified time period of one of the one or more cardiac events; and (b) for each of the one or more cardiac events, determining whether said cardiac event is within a specified time period of one of the one or more neurological events.