Patent Document ID: 4736751
Application ID: 06942204
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method to display the location and inter-area temporal relationships of a human subject's brain neural activity, comprising the steps of: (i) determining and recording the three-dimensional location of selected portions of the subject's head and internal portions of the subject's brain and recording said locations using a three-dimensional anatomical scan instrument to provide anatomical location data; (ii) positioning a plurality of at least 32 sensors external to the subject's scalp and proximate to the subject's scalp to detect analog brain neural activity detectable proximate to the surface of the scalp; (iii) determining the three-dimensional positions of the sensors, converting the said sensor position determinations into digital data, and storing the said sensor position digital data in computer storage means; (iv) providing a set of predetermined stimuli to the subject; (v) detecting the subject's analog brain signals at the sensors during delivery of said stimuli and amplifying said analog signals; converting the analog signals into digital data and storing said digital data in computer storage means; (vi) statistically analyzing (a) the said anatomical location data, (b) the said sensor position data, and (c) said stored brain signal digital data, to provide a set of statistical indications which represent generators of brain neural activity at sites within the brain and their temporal interrelationship; and (vii) displaying said statistical indications on a three-dimensional perspective display of at least part of a human brain, the brain portions of said display corresponding in location to the brain portion locations provided by the scan instrument.