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Apparatus and method of analyzing electrical brain activity

Abstract
An apparatus and method for mapping a patient's brain includes analyzing the waveform of electrical action potentials generated in the patient's brain to determine whether the waveforms match one or more predetermined waveforms. A system embodying the invention includes waveform discriminator circuitry capable of comparing the waveform of a sensed electrical action potential to predetermined waveforms. A system embodying the invention may also include a user interface for selecting a waveform and a transducer for generating a user recognizable signal when a waveform of a sensed electrical action potential matches a selected waveform.

Patent number: 6128527
Filing date: Dec 3, 1997
Issue date: Oct 3, 2000
Inventors: Matthew A. Howard, III, Charles Garell, Daniel Noh
Assignee: University of Iowa Research Foundation
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mind, brain