"The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it...knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient."
Dr. Alfred Velpeau, French surgeon ; 1839
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7294101 | Means and methods for treating headaches Disclosed is a system and method for treating headaches. The system employs a self-contained, battery operated, readily portable and easy-to-operate head-mounted magnetic depolarizer to generate a transient or time-varying high-intensity magnetic field into and arou... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283856 | Implantable lead system with seed electrodes A medical electrical lead system for neurological applications has a distal portion having a plurality of independently positionable seed electrodes, each of which may be connected via an interface to an implantable medical device. The interface allows the seed elec... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277748 | Spatiotemporal pattern recognition for neurological event detection and prediction in an implantable device A system and method for detecting and predicting neurological events with an implantable device uses a relatively low-power central processing unit in connection with signal processing circuitry to identify features (including half waves) and calculate window-based ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 6606521 | Implantable medical lead The present invention generally provides an implantable medical lead having markings. The lead is easier to implant and improves the accurate localization of lead electrodes at a specific point of the brain for neurostimulation. Also provided is an implan... | 08/12/2003 |