Patent Document ID: 20120089205
Application ID: 13280229
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method which comprises, in combination, the steps of: inserting one or more arrays of optical probes into a mammalian brain, or positioning the one or more arrays adjacent to the brain, using the arrays to optically silence all of a region of the brain, taking measurements to determine whether optically silencing all of the region produces a specified outcome, if the effect is observed, using at least some of the arrays to optically silence subregions of that region, one subregion at a time, for each particular subregion in that set, taking measurements to determine whether optically silencing that particular subregion produces the specified outcome, and repeating the preceding two steps iteratively for progressively smaller subdivisions, wherein the steps listed above occur in a chronological order, which chronological order may be the same or different than the order in which listed above.