57 results about "Sleep induction" patented technology

An apparatus and method in which the portions of the labyrinth associated with the labyrinthine sense and/or the nerves associated therewith are stimulated to perform at least one of the following functions: augment or control a patient's respiratory function, open the patient's airway, induce sleep, and/or counteract vertigo. In one embodiment, the vestibular stimulating system of the present invention includes 1) a stimulation element that performs the actual stimulation of the tissue, 2) a sensor to detect a physiological condition of the patient, and 3) a power/control unit that receives the signals provided by the sensor and causes stimulation energy to be provided to the stimulation element at an appropriate timing, level, pattern, and/or frequency to achieve the desired function. However, the present invention also contemplates eliminating the sensor in favor of applying a predetermined pattern of stimulation to the patient.

Described are nanoparticulate formulations of a benzodiazepine, such as lorazepam, that does not require the presence of polyethylene glycol and propylene glycol as stabilizers, and methods of making and using such formulations. The formulations are particularly useful in aerosol and injectable dosage forms, and comprise nanoparticulate benzodiazepine, such as lorazepam, and at least one surface stabilizer. The formulations are useful in the treatment of status epilepticus, treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, sleep induction, acute psychosis, and as a pre-anesthesia medication.

A T-type calcium channel antagonist is useful, alone or in combination with other agents, for inducing sleep and enhancing and improving the quality of sleep, in particular by increasing sleep efficiency and augmenting sleep maintenance.

A system for sleep induction, detecting and tracking includes a monitor for analyzing single- and multiple-respiration patterns of a user and a stimulus generator for providing to the user multiple stimuli each bearing selectable relationships with selected temporal characteristics of the monitored respiration patterns. At least stimulus is operative to change one or more temporal characteristics of the respiration patterns by synchronization of respiration movements with specific aspects of the stimulus. A sync detector determines at least one measure of synchronization between at least one selected temporal characteristic of selected stimuli and a corresponding temporal characteristic of the respiration patterns for selected relationships between the stimuli and the temporal characteristics of the respiration patterns. A sleep detector indicates onset of sleep and a driver continuously controls the operation of the stimulus generator, the sync detector and the sleep detector based on signals as they are received.

Visual and auditory stimuli are provided to a patient to treat various neurological disorders or conditions and/or to provide improved mental or physical performance. The visual and auditory stimuli are provided by a wearable headset or sleep mask that may be comfortably worn by a user, such as in bed to induce sleep. The wearable headset or sleep mask includes, or works in cooperation with, sensors that determine the state of the user and modify the operation of the headset for treating various disorders or contentions.

A method of replicating a mental state of a first subject in a second subject comprising: capturing a mental state of the first subject represented by brain activity patterns; and replicating the mental state of the first subject in the second subject by inducing the brain activity patterns in the second subject.

A relaxation inducing sleep mask includes a comfortable eye mask and a sleep module carried by the eye mask providing audible and/or visible patterns each intended to promote relaxation and to induce sleep.

The invention discloses application of eucommia ulmoides extracts in the preparation of compositions for tranquilizing and inducing sleep and application of the eucommia ulmoides extracts in the preparation of compositions for treating insomnia, anxiety neurosis or convulsion. The eucommia ulmoides extracts are continuously extracted from eucommia bark, eucommia leaves, eucommia male flowers and\or eucommia whole plants by petroleum ether, ethyl acetate, normal butanol, ethanol and water. The eucommia ulmoides extracts are obtained by extracting from eucommia plants. And results of researcheson the application of the eucommia ulmoides extracts in the field of tranquilization and sleep induction show that the eucommia ulmoides extracts have remarkable effects of tranquilizing and inducingsleep and resisting convulsion, wherein the ethyl acetate extract of eucommia and the normal butanol extract of the eucommia have more obvious effects. The eucommia ulmoides extracts are natural active materials for researching and developing novel health-care foods and new drugs for tranquilizing and inducing sleep, and can be applied to the treatment of nervous system diseases such as insomnia,anxiety neurosis and convulsion without side effects and psychic dependence.

A device for inducing better sleep embedded with music having a tempo of about sixty to about eighty beats-per-minute. Listening to music with a tempo of approximately 60 to approximately 80 beats-per-minute results in significantly better sleep quality, better perceived sleep quality, longer sleep duration and greater sleep efficiency. Embodiments of the device can include, among other things, an alarm clock, a pillow, mobile, sleep mask, crib or a stuffed toy for use with children. Embodiments of the device including a travel clock, travel pillow, or mobile device allowing the device to be easily transported for purposes of inducing better sleep during travel are also contemplated.

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent home, and particularly discloses an intelligent home sleep device. Wherein the device comprises a piece of sleep furniture and a sleep control device mounted on the sleep furniture, the sleep control device comprises a signal acquisition module, an intelligent control module and a sleep induction module, the signal acquisition module is in communication connection with the intelligent control module, and the intelligent control module is in communication connection with the sleep induction; the signal acquisition module is used for acquiring human sleep data; the intelligent control module is respectively used for performing data processing on environmental data and sleep data so as to obtain sleep control signals, analyzing sleepdata so as to obtain sleep analysis results and transmit the sleep analysis results to a terminal server; and the sleep induction module is used for adjusting configuration information of the sleep furniture according to the sleep control signals. The invention also discloses an intelligent home sleep system. The intelligent home sleep device can assist people to fall asleep as soon as possible.

An apparatus and method for generating sleep-inducing stimuli, including a programmable controller operable for generating a sleep-inducing rhythm; and a transducer unit containing at least one transducer connected to the controller for receiving the sleep-inducing rhythm and generating and applying the sleep-inducing stimuli to a user in accordance with the rhythm. The stimuli may be in the form of vibration, warmth, light, sound, and/or electrical current. The stimuli are adapted to induce alpha, theta, and/or delta brain waves to induce sleep.

The invention relates to the prediction of a sleep parameter (e.g., sleep efficiency (SE), latency to persistent sleep (LPS), wake after sleep onset (WASO), total sleep time (TST)) of an individual and the response of such an individual to a sleep inducing compound based on the individual's PER3 variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) genotype.

Vaporizable compositions based on specific components in cannabis extracts and in particular comprising cannabinol and optionally sleep inducing terpenes, are provided. Such compositions, comprising low to medium concentration of CBN, are particularly useful in treating sleep disorders such as insomnia.

The invention discloses sleep induction equipment. The sleep induction equipment comprises a brain wave sensor (1), a signal processing circuit (2), a controller (3), a drive circuit (4) and a phototube (5). According to the sleep induction equipment, real-time brain wave signals of a patient are collected, the brain wave signal frequency is calculated, a light source with the frequency slightly lower than the brain wave signal frequency is adopted for inducing brain waves, finally, the patient gradually enters the deep sleep state, and the treatment effect is remarkable. The sleep induction equipment can carry out high-frequency induction on the brain waves of the patient, awaken the patient gradually and greatly improve the effect of treating insomnia, the easily-awakening symptom and poor sleep.

The autonomic nerve regulating agent of the present invention, which, has sedative action, sleep inducing action, and stress mitigating action in individuals, regardless of individual variation in sensitivity to or preference for fragrance, contains as an active ingredient a sesquiterpene alcohol with a boiling point of 250° C. or higher, particularly cedrol.

A Pavlovian conditioned reflex sleep induction kit includes at least one physiological sensor, wherein the at least one physiological sensor is configured to detect at least a physiological parameter of a user and transmit a detection signal to an automatically activated scent diffuser, wherein the automatically activated scent diffuser is configured to receive an electronic activation signal and to diffuse a scent as a function of the electronic activation signal, a control circuit configured to receive the detection signal from the at least one physiological sensor, to ascertain that the user is entering a hypnagogic state, and to transmit the electronic activation signal to the automatically activated scent diffuser, thereby conditioning the user to respond to subsequent sensing of the same scent. For later use, a user-activated scent diffuser is provided, that diffuses the same scent upon activation by a user, to thereby trigger the conditioned reflex to fall asleep.

A sleep induction device includes at least one sensor for detecting a physiological characteristic of the user, a stimulator configured to provide successive stimuli to the user to anticipate on the detected physiological characteristic, which successive stimuli define a guidance path, and which guidance path is to be followed by the user to induce a change during the sleep session of the user, a memory which is arranged to store values of detected physiological characteristics, and provided stimuli during the sleep session, and a processing unit including a control programme which is programmed to determine a current sleep state of the user, which current sleep state is based on at least one detected physiological characteristic measured by the at least one sensor and which control programme is programmed to generate an initial guidance path to induce a change from the determined current sleep state to another sleep state.