Patent Document ID: 8150522
Application ID: 11505906
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for mitigating or managing seizures in an animal, comprising: monitoring one or more signals representative of brain activity of the animal with at least one sensor; in at least one signal processing apparatus coupled to the at least one sensor, measuring energy in the at least one signal to record a size of energy for a detected brain activity event and generating a time-varying histogram of energy distribution over a time interval based on recorded energy size; in the at least one signal processing apparatus, determining whether the time-varying histogram of energy distribution is indicative of self-organized criticality behavior of the brain activity of the animal; and based on the self-organized criticality behavior, applying to the animal stimulations that are configured to dissipate energy thereby raising a seizure threshold so as to make subsequent clinically significant epileptiform activity in the animal less likely.