Dustin F Scheinost from East Haven, CT, age 39

System And Method For Regulating Brain Activity
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US Patent:

20130131438, May 23, 2013
Filed:

Nov 19, 2012
Appl. No.:

13/680744
Inventors:

Yale University - New Haven CT, US
Dustin Scheinost - New Haven CT, US
Assignee:

Yale University - New Haven CT
International Classification:

A61M 21/02
US Classification:

600 28, 600 27
Abstract:

The present invention includes systems and methods of using real-time neurofeedback to improve the correspondence between first-person experience and specific brain activation patterns in a manner that minimally affects the experience itself. The present invention provides meditators the ability to enhance their control over their own brain activity, such as posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) activation. The present invention also provides methods for treating a disease or disorder of a subject by measuring the subject's brain activity via fMRI, presenting a representation of the measured brain activity to the subject, and instructing the subject to reduce the represented brain activity by altering their meditative state. The present invention also provides a system and method of using fMRI neurofeedback to directly correlate subjective experience with neural activation.

Method Of Correlating Brain Activity
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US Patent:

20180064902, Mar 8, 2018
Filed:

Aug 21, 2017
Appl. No.:

15/682009
Inventors:

- New Haven CT, US
Dustin SCHEINOST - New Haven CT, US
International Classification:

A61M 21/02
A61B 5/055
A61B 5/00
A61B 5/0476
Abstract:

The present invention includes systems and methods of using real-time neurofeedback to improve the correspondence between first-person experience and specific brain activation patterns in a manner that minimally affects the experience itself. The present invention provides meditators the ability to enhance their control over their own brain activity, such as posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) activation. The present invention also provides methods for treating a disease or disorder of a subject by measuring the subject's brain activity via fMRI, presenting a representation of the measured brain activity to the subject, and instructing the subject to reduce the represented brain activity by altering their meditative state. The present invention also provides a system and method of using fMRI neurofeedback to directly correlate subjective experience with neural activation.

Dustin F Scheinost