Device for visual stimulation

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This invention describes a device for visual stimulation designed to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders by disrupting abnormal synchronization in brain neuron populations. The device uses a combination of control units and specialized glasses or goggles containing multiple independently controlled stimulation elements (such as segments of LCD glass or light sources) to deliver targeted visual stimuli with varying phase, timing, frequency, and polarity. This controlled visual input helps to desynchronize over-synchronized neural activity that is characteristic of certain diseases, offering a non-invasive alternative or supplement to medication or deep brain stimulation.

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• Treatment of Parkinson's disease and other tremor disorders
• Management of epilepsy and prevention of seizures
• Alleviation of depression, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric conditions
• Support for patients with ADHD or obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Non-invasive therapy for migraines, cluster headaches, neuralgias, and chronic pain conditions
• Rehabilitation after stroke or brain injury
• Potential treatment for tinnitus, sleep disorders, and other neurological dysfunctions
• Tool for research into brain synchronization and cognitive neuroscience

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• Non-invasive and user-friendly compared to surgical interventions or implantable stimulators
• Customizable stimulation patterns allow adaptation to individual patient needs and specific neurological conditions
• Potentially fewer side effects than pharmacological therapies
• Suitable for both home use and clinical settings
• Can be used with feedback (closed-loop) from patient monitoring or operate in open-loop modes
• May induce long-lasting therapeutic effects by promoting neural network reorganization
• Versatile: compatible with various glasses (transparent, semi-transparent, opaque, or video-glasses) and adaptable to advances in display/light technology
• Expandable for use in research and diagnostics of brain network dynamics

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The device (100) has a control unit (10) and a stimulation unit (11) with a majority of stimulation elements (12,13), which produce visual stimulation signals (15,16). The stimulation elements put back a phase of a neural activity of neurons by an admission over an eye of a patient and forwarding at neurons and have a diseased synchronous and oscillator board neural activity. The control unit controls the stimulation unit such that stimulation elements produce the visual stimulation signals different from each other with different phase and with different polarity.