Treatment of dementia by nerve stimulation

Details Treatment of dementia by nerve stimulation Treatment of dementia by nerve stimulation

1991-02-22

1993-12-14

Cohen, Lee S.

Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application

Light, thermal, and electrical application

Electrical therapeutic systems

607 59, 607 72, 607118, 607 62, A61N 136

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ABSTRACT:
A method of treating symptoms of dementia, including cortical dementia, subcortical dementia, and multi-infarct dementia, includes selecting a patient suffering from dementia, and applying to the patient's vagus nerve an electrical stimulation signal having parameter values selected to modulate the electrical activity of the vagus nerve in a manner to modulate the activity of preselected portions of the reticular activating system of the brain stem.

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