MXPA04004755A

MXPA04004755A - Modulating body organ function using specific brain waveforms.

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Publication number: MXPA04004755A
Application number: MXPA04004755A
Authority: MX
Inventors: K Lee Claude
Original assignee: Science Medicus Inc
Priority date: 2001-11-20
Filing date: 2002-11-18
Publication date: 2005-04-11
Also published as: AU2002367920A1; RU2004118499A; CN1615102A; WO2003096145A2; CN1319489C; WO2005028020A2; WO2003096145A3; ZA200403901B; IL162089A0; EP1453417A4; KR20040068924A; HK1077488A1; AU2002367920B2; WO2005028020A3; JP2005519716A; AU2002367920B8; CA2466445A1; EP1453417A2

Abstract

A method and apparatus for collecting, recording and broadcasting coded human or animal body waveforms. The method consists of placing a contact (10), which is designed to receive electrical signals, on a portion of the body (20). The electrical signals are recorded by a recorder (12), converted into readable form via analog to digital converter (14); and are processed and stored in a computer (16). The electrical signals can be adjusted and rebroadcast into the body to modulate body organ functioning.

Description

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECORDING, STORING AND SPREADING SPECIFIC BRAIN WAVE FORMS TO MODULATE BODY ORGANS OPERATION Related Request This corresponds to the non-provisional filing of the US patent application. Serial No. 60 / 249,882, filed on November 20, 2000, entitled "Ethod to Record, Store and Broadcast Specific Brain Waveforms to Body Organ Functioning" (Method for Registering, Storing and Disseminating Wave Forms of the Brain Specific to Modular Functioning of Body Organs). BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to coded electrical waveforms and to a method for recording and interpreting brain signals. The brain is one of the last great frontiers in the bio-medical sciences. Deciphering its mysterious complexities related to diagnosis and medical treatment is as big a task as inventing technology and collecting resources to travel to the moon. Brain signals direct the harmony of the human body in much the same way a director controls and directs his orchestra. The brain detects, calculates and decides before sending electrical and chemical instructions to the body in which it lives. The brain is a magnificent information processor that not only controls the body in which it lives but also communicates with other brains living in other bodies. This interrelation with another brain can alter the electrochemical functioning in both brains.

Like no other creature, humanity has for centuries slowly observed its own state of health and designed treatments to heal diseases and injuries. Because historically man has conserved this medical knowledge in books, it serves as the basis of first university scientific training. The last two centuries of education and research in bio-medicine have established a detailed understanding of human anatomy and the relative functioning of its components, all of which serve as a platform for current medical treatments. Modern scientists have expanded into specialties that never existed before. Currently, scientists study the genetic makeup of humans and are directed to predict and manipulate genes to prevent future diseases. Then there are studies at the cellular level that have determined the microscopic workings of many of the ubiquitous chemical and electrical processes, which link and regulate the processes of life. Although scientists and doctors can treat all organs in the body with surgery or drugs, it is only in the last half century that we have come into contact with the electrical treatment of organ systems. Examples of this development are the cardiac defibrillator and the pacemaker or the electrical brain stimulator for Parkinson's. Meticulous anatomical studies, experiments with animals and the recording of the consequences of injuries and diseases of the human brain, have served as the basic information to understand how the brain works.

There has been work in cellular dynamics and molecular biology, carried out in university laboratories in the last 20 years that is still in process. This has opened bio-functional details that were previously unknown. In addition, recent publication of wonderful texts in neuroanatomy and physiology have illuminated the physical relationship with the current functioning of the nervous system. This source of knowledge now makes it possible to open a new technology for electrical modulation of organ function. This knowledge opens new modalities of electrical treatment for emergencies that threaten life and cardiac, respiratory and digestive conditions, not accessible before. This new technology makes it possible to detect the electrical waveforms that are generated by the brain and evaluate what the signal is for. This invention provides a way to evolve known and unknown waveforms in electrical devices that can diffuse these signals into components of the selected nervous system., as medical treatments. It is not commonly understood how electrical signals in the brain modulate the functions of the body as a whole, but there is an understanding to a limited degree of how organs are modulated. The brain controls critical functions of all organ systems in the bodies of humans and animals, in a coordinated way to keep the body alive and therefore keep the brain itself alive. The brain wants to live and continue in the future, in a way that makes fine adjustments and modulates the cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive systems among others, to integrate the needs of all. Maintaining optimal performance is more difficult as the body and brain age due to cellular degradation. But if critical organ functions can be readjusted in a minimal non-invasive or invasive way, both the quality and the extent of life can benefit. The brain controls, through the autonomic nervous network, the vegetative functions of the main organs. These organs represent the minimum requirement to sustain life. These are the organs that must function even if the brain is in a coma, and the owner is unable to think or do anything if life goes on. The function of the main organ must always be maintained at a certain minimum level to maintain the life of the organism, otherwise death is certain. This control is performed by a nervous system consisting of two main divisions: a) the central nervous system (brain) in concert with the spinal cord, and b) the peripheral system consisting of cranial and spinal nerves plus ganglia. Within the central nervous system is the autonomic nervous system (ANS = Autonomic Nervous System) that transports all the efferent impulses except for the motor innervation of the skeletal muscles. The ANS is primarily out of voluntary control and regulates the heartbeat and contraction of smooth muscles of many organs including digestive and respiratory. Also, the ANS controls exocrine and some endocrine organs along with some metabolic activity. In addition, there are activities for parasympathetic and sympathetic innervation that oppose each other to achieve a balance of tissue and organ functions. The nervous system is constructed of nerve cells called neurons that have support cells called glia. Neurons are electrically excitable and provide a method by which the brain is instructed to modulate critical functions. The neuron has a projection called an axon, which can be as short as a few millimeters or longer than a meter. The axon provides and uses nerve fibers to carry electrical signals that end in a synapse. A synapse is at the end of the axon. It faces other synapses of a neighboring axon through a space. To cross this space, the electrical signal of the brain must couple in specialized electrical or chemical transduction reactions, to allow the crossing of the electrical signal to the next axon or to a ganglion or nerve plexus located in a current organ. Neurons have a body (or soma) and are the morphological and functional unit that sends signals on their axons, until these signals instruct the organ they reach. The units of operating neurons that carry signals from the brain are classified as "efferent" nerves. "Afferent" nerves are those that transport sensory or state information to the brain. The brain computes and generates those electrical signals that are required as a result of the input data (afferent signals) already collected. These afferent signals received by the brain provide sophisticated operational status of the organs and the total body. This information extends throughout the body from the inside and also the detected environmental status of immediate areas outside the body itself and at some distance. External data that reach the brain can be related to changing temperature or a dangerous situation as strangers that are approximate or even potential mating possibilities. These external afferent sensory data are provided by the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. In addition, there is proprioception, which provides sensation in the musculoskeletal system, that is, deep sensations. Other afferent-type nerve sensors called nociceptors detect noxious stimuli and pain. Nociceptors alert the brain of unpleasant things that are considered undesirable and require some immediate action in the brain. This range of information that reaches the brain is processed for action. The efferent nerves provide rapid adjustment in performance for various organ systems or even instruct skeletal motor neurons to run, walk, hide, help or a physical approach for more sensory information. The invention describes specific waveforms and a method for accurately acquiring the key operational electrical waveforms of selected axons, nerve plexus connections or ganglia of the autonomic nervous system. These waveform data are stored and categorized as to the current purpose of these signals. This is very similar to the ongoing effort to identify and categorize human genes. Once the purpose of the individual coded electrical waveforms has been determined, they will be installed in a microprocessor of specific application for electrical diffusion or conduction to the nervous system, in order to treat or correct selected medical conditions. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The invention provides a method for modulating the functioning of body organs. According to the method, forms of wave that are generated and transported in a body, are collected from the body. These collected waveforms are then stored electrically. Then, one or more of the collected waveforms can be transmitted to an organ of the body, to stimulate or regulate the functioning of the organ. The collected waveforms are transformed into a readable format for a processor. The transformation of the coded waveforms collected into a readable format includes transforming analog signals into digital form. The collected waveforms are stored and cataloged according to the function performed by the waveforms in the body. A digital-to-analog converter is used to convert the cataloged waveforms to analogue form and the converted waveforms are then applied to an organ of the body, to regulate for medical treatment purposes. The invention further provides an apparatus for modulating the functioning of body organs. The apparatus includes a source of collected waveforms that are indicative of the functioning of body organs, means for transmitting collected waveforms to an organ of the body, and means for applying the waveforms transmitted to the body organ to stimulate or adjust the waveform. operation of the organ. The transmission means may include a digital-to-analog converter. The source of collected waveforms comprises a computer that has the collected waveforms stored in digital format. The computer includes separate storage areas for waveforms collected from different categories.

The apparatus also includes means to collect waveforms from a body and catalog and transmit these collected waveforms to the source. The collection means may comprise a sensor placed in the body. A recorder is provided to record the detected waveforms in analog form. An analog to digital converter is connected to the recorder to convert the waveforms before being sent to a scientific computer. Additionally, the apparatus includes a digital-to-analog converter, to convert the collected waveforms for retransmission to a body, for medical treatment purposes. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The invention is described in greater detail in the following description of examples incorporating the best mode of the invention, taken in conjunction with the drawing figures, wherein: Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a form of apparatus for practicing the method according to the invention; Figure 2 is a flow chart of the program or software when the waveform enters the computer; Figure 3 is a flow diagram of the program or software when the operator retrieves and diffuses the waveform from inside the computer; Figures 4A-4H are schematic of representative waveforms, incorporated in the invention, which are transported by neurons after generation in the medulla oblongata or sensory neurons that go to the medulla oblongata; Y Figures 5A-5H are schematic of alternative waveforms, as described in the invention, that affect the nervous system. Description of Examples Incorporating the Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention For the purpose of promoting an understanding of the principles of the invention, reference will be made to the modalities illustrated in the drawings. However, it will be understood that this is not intended as a limitation to the scope of the invention, these alterations and further modifications in the illustrated device and additional applications of the principles of the invention illustrated herein are contemplated as would normally occur to a person with skill in the specialty to which the invention relates. Humans and other mammals, and even smaller creatures of all types, generate electrical waveforms from their respective brains, which modulate key aspects of vegetative systems. These waveforms are of a general linear analog format similar in appearance, regardless of the species. Parallel lines of signals can also be transmitted simultaneously by the medulla oblongata to help form the signaling waveforms. Systems of key organs such as cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive and others, decode these signals and modulate or fine-tune themselves in response to these instructions. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) operates similarly in all species, but not in exactly the same way. Parallel carriers of autonomous signals can work as lines on a sheet of musical record notes with different characteristics, pauses or speed at different levels. The autonomic nervous system operates without voluntary or conscious control and generally controls the essential body wave systems of the vegetative state. This invention focuses on electrical signals carried by accessory bundles of vagus nerve and hypoglossal nerve, including afferent fibers. The vagus nerve is a wandering nerve (vague means wandering) that winds through the body after it leaves the medulla oblongata located in the rhombocephalic or hindbrain. The hypoglossal and accessory nerves also emerge from the medulla oblongata and are intertwined with the vagus to harmoniously achieve the basic support of life. The signals travel on the surface of the vagus nerve but below its insulating myelin lining. The electrical output of selected afferent and efferent nerves can be made accessible by silver, gold or other metal wires or voltage clamps or patch electrodes and even seismic sensors, along with other detection methods. The particular apparatus for detecting this output is not part of the present invention. Afferent and efferent nerves travel in the same bundles of nerves or can be directed separately. To achieve direct measurements of electrical waveforms, shaving insulators and myelin sheathing may initially be required. Seismic, ultrasonic, reception antenna, direct conduction and other methods can be used to capture the coded signals of the brain as they relate to the organ performance of the body. These signs then they are stored and replicated for electrical return to the appropriate site for medical treatment related to modulating the function of the organ. The invention comprises a method for recording, storing and diffusing specific brain waveforms to modulate the functioning of human and animal body organ. One form of the method for recording, storing, and diffusing brain waveforms, as illustrated in Figure 1, is constituted by at least one sensor in the form of an electrode or pair of electrodes 10, an analog recorder 12, a analog-to-digital converter 14, a computer 16, and a digital-to-analog converter 18. The electrode 10 is connected to a rib 20 in the body of the human or animal, and receives the coded electrical waveform of the nerve 20. The electrode 10 it can be constituted by silver wire, tungsten wire, or any other wire suitable for conducting the perceptible electrical signals carried by the nerve 20. The electric waveform is recorded by the analog recorder 12 because the nerve 20 only transmits electrical signals in analog form. Once the waveforms are recorded they are sent from the analog recorder 12 to the analog-to-digital converter 14. The converter 14, in a conventional manner, transforms the waveforms of the analog format into digital format, which is more suitable for processing by computer. The converter 14 then transmits the converted waveforms to a computer 16, where the waveform is processed, stored, adjusted and / or diffused, as desired. Selected signals that have been digitized can be transferred to a specific application processor or device linear analogue for use in preparing and broadcasting signals recognized by the brain or a select organ as a modulation treatment. When the operator directs the computer 16 to recover and spread the waveform back to the brain, the waveform is transmitted from the computer 16 through a digital-to-analog converter 18. In a conventional manner, the waveform is It converts back into analog form because the body only transmits and uses electrical signals encoded in analog format. If the encoded waveforms were transmitted to the body in digital form, the body would not recognize the transmission. The computer 16 contains software that is capable of identifying the function associated with the particular waveforms. Many types of software can be developed by those skilled in the art to perform the functions of the invention, and the particular software is not part of the present invention. As illustrated in the flow diagram of Figure 2, after starting at step 22, in step 24, computer 16 receives a digital waveform from analog to digital converter 14. After the form of wave, the software reads the waveform and in step 26 identifies the function of the particular waveform. Once the software identifies the function associated with the particular waveform, in step 28 the waveform or encoded signal is directed to a particular storage area. For example, if the waveform is used for digestive functions, it can be stored in a separate area of waveforms, used for respiratory functions.

Subsequently, when it is decided to use the stored digital form of the waveform, as illustrated in the flow chart in Figure 3, the cycle starts at 30, and the waveform is recovered from the storage area, as illustrated in step 32, having previously been stored in step 28 (Figure 2). If it is determined that the waveform needs to be adjusted in order to perform a particular function, the software adjusts the waveform as required in step 34. However, if it is decided that the waveform does not need to be adjusted , step 34 is ignored and step 36 is performed whereby the waveform signal is broadcast to the specified body organ, after conversion to analog format. The brain often makes modifications to the waveforms in order to fine-tune the function of the brain required or which requires a particular organ to perform, and this is also done by the present invention. Representative waveforms that transport the neurons after being generated in the medulla oblongata are illustrated in Figure 4. These waveforms have a central linear carrier that is analog. The signal is direct current in nature and has many encoded modulations that provide instructions to the recipient organ or system that obtains them. Other representative waveforms for signals that can affect the nervous system are illustrated in Figure 5. Waveforms can provide instructions as they leave the vagus or other nerve and reach organs of the body. These signs are similar to modular disseminated instructions of the medulla oblongata.

Various features of the invention have been particularly shown and described in connection with the illustrated embodiments of the invention. However, it will be understood that these particular products and their method of manufacture, do not limit but merely illustrate, and that the invention will be given its broadest interpretation within the terms of the appended claims.

Claims

CLAIMS 1. A method for modulating the functioning of the body organ, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a. collect waveforms of a body generated in the body and transported by neurons in the body, b. store the collected waveforms, and c. transmit one or more of the collected waveforms to a body organ, to stimulate organ function.
2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that step "a" further includes transforming the collected waveforms into a readable format for a processor.
3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that the transformation step comprises transforming analog signals into digital format.
4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that step "b" further includes storing the collected waveforms according to function performed by the waveforms.
5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the step "c" further includes transmitting the collected waveforms to a body by means of a digital-to-analog converter.
6. Apparatus for modulating the functioning of body organs, characterized in that it comprises: a. a source of collected waveforms indicative of the functioning of the body organ, b. means for transmitting one or more of the collected waveforms to an organ of the body, and c. means for applying the waveforms transmitted to the organ of the body, to stimulate or regulate the function of the organ.
7. The apparatus according to claim 6, characterized in that the transmission means include a digital to analog converter.
8. The apparatus according to claim 6, characterized in that the source comprises a computer having waveforms collected, stored in digital format.
The apparatus according to claim 8, characterized in that the computer includes separate storage areas for collected waveforms of different functional categories.
10. The apparatus according to claim 6, further includes means for collecting waveforms from a body and transmitting waveforms collected at the source.
The apparatus according to claim 10, characterized in that the collection means comprise a sensor placed on the body.
12. The apparatus according to claim 11, characterized in that it includes a recorder for waveforms detected in analog format.
The apparatus according to claim 12, characterized in that it includes an analog-to-digital converter connected to the recorder, to convert the detected waveforms.
14. The apparatus according to claim 11, characterized in that it includes a digital to analog converter to convert collected waveforms.
15. The apparatus according to claim 6, characterized in that the application means comprise an electrode of the body.