MXPA06002998A - Device and method for conducting or broadcast actual neuro electrical coded signals for medical treatment - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for collecting, recording, and broadcasting coded human or animal body waveforms. The method consists of placing a contact, which is designed to receive electrical signals, on a portion of the body. The electrical signal is converted into a readable format and is processed and stored in a computer. The electrical signal can be adjusted and rebroadcast into the body to modulate body organ, muscle and gland functioning.

Description

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING OR TRANSMITTING REAL NEUROELECTRIC CODIFIED SIGNALS FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT Related Request This is a partial continuation of the Request Serial No. 10 / 000,005, filed on November 20, 2001, entitled: Method for Registering, Storing and Transmitting Specific Wave Forms of the Brain, to Modulate the Functioning of Body Organs. "This application also claims the benefit of the application Serial No. 60 / 03,908, filed on September 18, 2003, entitled "Device and Method for Driving or Transmitting Real Neuro-Coded Signals for Medical Treatment".

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to neuro-encoded electrical signals and to a method for recording and interpreting signals from the brain. The brain is one of the last big frontiers in the bio-medical sciences. The deciphering of its mysterious complexities, related to medical diagnosis and treatment is a search as great as technology of invention and the gathering of resources to travel to the moon. The signals of the brain direct the harmony of the human body very similar to a conductor who controls and directs his orchestra. The brain detects, calculates and decides before sending the electrical instructions to the body where it lives. The brain is a magnificent information processor that not only controls the body where it lives, but also communicates with other brains that reside in other bodies. Such interrelation to another brain can alter the electrochemical function of both brains. Like no other creature, humanity, through the centuries, has slowly observed its own state of the body and has devised treatments to heal diseases and injuries. Historically because man has preserved his medical knowledge in books, it serves as the basis of previous universal scientific trainings. The last two centuries of education and research in bio-medicine have established a detailed understanding of human anatomy and the relative function of its components, all of which serve as a platform for current medical treatments. Modern scientists have expanded into possibilities that never existed before. Currently, Scientists study the genetic make-up of humans and go to predictions and ineffective work with genes to anticipate future discomforts. Thus, there are studies on a cellular level that have been determined by the microscopic works of processes, chemical and electrical, ubiquitous, that unite and regulate the processes of life. Although scientists and doctors can treat every organ in the body with surgery or medicine, it is only in the last century that we started with electrical treatments of organ systems. Examples of this development are cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers or the electrical brain simulator for Parsin's disease. Meticulous anatomical studies, animal experiments and records of the consequences of human brain injuries and diseases have served as the basic information to understand how the brain worked. There have also been works of cellular kinetics and molecular biology, carried out in the laboratories of universities, in the past 20 years, which are still in progress. This has discovered bio-functional details that were previously unknown. In addition, the recent publication of wonderful texts in neuroanatomy and physiology, have illuminated the physical relationship to the real function of the nervous system. The source of knowledge now has the possibility of discovering new technologies for electrical modulation of organ function. Such knowledge now opens modalities of electrical treatments for emergencies that threaten life and cardiac, respiratory and digestive conditions, previously not accessible. This new technology makes it possible to detect neuro-electrical coded signals, generated by the brain, and to find out what the signal is for. This invention provides a way to develop the waveforms, known and unknown, in electronic devices, which can transmit these signals on selected components of the nervous system, such as medical treatments. It is not commonly understood how the electrical signals of the brain modulate the functions of the body, as a whole, but there is an understanding to a limited degree of how the organs are modulated. The brain controls the critical functions of all the organ systems of the body of humans and animals, in a coordinated way, to keep the body alive and thus keep alive its own brain. The brain wants to live to reach the future, so it tunes and modulates in a fine way the cardiovascular, expiratory and digestive systems, among others, to integrate all the needs. Maintaining optimal performance is more difficult as the body and brain age, due to cellular degradation. But the critical functions of the organ can be restored in a non-aggressive or even aggressive way and can benefit both the quality and the extension of life. The brain controls, by means of an autonomous nervous network, the vegetative functions of most organs. These organs represent the minimum requirement to sustain life. There are organs that must work, even if the brain is in a coma, and it is incapable by itself of thinking or doing anything, if life goes on. The function of main organs will always be maintained at a certain minimum level to maintain the life of the organism, otherwise the dead one will occur. Such control is done by means of a nervous system, which consists of two main divisions: a) the central nervous system (brain) in contact with the spinal cord, and b) the peripheral system, which consists of the nerves of the skull and spinal plus the ganglia.

Within the central nervous system, there is the autonomic nervous system (ANS) which carries all the efferent impulses, except for the motor innervation of the skeletal muscles. The ANS is mainly outside the voluntary control and regulates the beating of the heart and the contraction of the smooth muscles of many organs, which include the digestive and respiratory, likewise, the ANS controls the exocrine and some endocrine organs, together with some metabolic activity. In addition, there is activity from the para-sympathetic and sympathetic innervation, which opposes each other to obtain a balance of tissue and organ functions. The nervous system is constructed of nerve cells called neurons, which have supported cells called glia. Neurons are electrically excitable and provide a method by which instructions are taken from the brain to modulate critical functions. The neuron has a projection called axon, which can be short, as few millimeters or more than one meter. The axon provides and uses nerve fibers to carry electrical signals that end in a synapse. A synapse is the end of an axon. It faces another synapse of a neighboring axon through a gap. To cross such hollow, the electrical signal of the brain must be coupled in specialized chemical or electrical transduction reactions, to allow crossing the electrical signal to the next axon or to the nervous plexus or ganglion located in the real organ. Neurons have a body (or soma) and are the morphological and functioning unit that sends signals along their axons, until the signals that instruct the organ arrive. The operating neuron units that carry signals from the brain are classified as "efferent" nerves. These "efferent" nerves are those that carry a sensor or status information to the brain. The brain calculates and generates those electrical signals that are required as a result of the incoming data (efferent signals) it has collected. Such efferent signals received by the brain provide sophisticated organs and operational status of the general body. Such information is disseminated in the entire body, from which inside and also the detected environmental state, from areas immediately outside of one's own body and at some distance. External data, which reach the brain, can be related to a change in temperature or a dangerous situation, such as the approach of strangers or even potential mating possibilities. Such data Sensitive external afferents are provided by the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. In addition, there is a pro-perception that provides sensation in the musculoskeletal system, that is, deep sensations. Other efferent type nerve detectors, called nociceptors, detect noxious stimuli and pain. Nociceptors alert the brain of unpleasant things, which are considered undesirable and require some immediate action within the brain. This interval of information that reaches the brain is processed to take actions. The efferent nerves provide rapid adjustment in performance for the various organ systems, or even instruct the skeletal-motor neurons to run, walk, hide, assist or physical approach for more detection information. The invention describes specific neuro-electrical encoded signals and a method for acquiring precisely the operative key of the neuro-electrical encoded signals. Such data from the neuro-electrical encoded signals are stored and categorized as for the actual purpose of such signals. That is, very similar to the progressive effort to identify and categorize human genes. One of the purposes of the individual neuro-electrical coding signals has been determined, they will be installed in a microprocessor of specific application for transmission or electrical conduction in the nervous system, in order to treat or correct the selected medical conditions.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The invention provides a method for 'modulating the functioning of body organs. According to the method, the neuro-electrical encoded signals, which are generated and carried in the body, are collected from the body. Such collected neuro-electrical encoded signals are then stored electrically. Next, one or more of the collected neuro-electrical encoded signals can be transmitted to an organ of the body to stimulate the collected neuro-electrical encoded signals can be transmitted to an organ of the body to stimulate or regulate the function of the organ. The coded, neuro-electrical signals collected are transformed into a readable format for processing. the transformation of the collected neuro-electrical encoded signals into a readable format includes transforming analog signals into a digital form. The coded, neuro-electrical, collected signals are stored and cataloged, according to the function performed by the neuro-electrical encoded signals in the body. A digital-to-analog converter is used to convert the cataloged neuro-electrical encoded signals to an analog form, and the converted neuro-electrical encoded signals are then applied to an organ of the body, to regulate for purposes of medical treatment. The invention further provides an apparatus for modulating the functioning of body organs. The apparatus includes a source of collected neuro-electrical encoded signals, which are indicative of the functioning of the body organ, means for transmitting the collected neuro-electrical encoded signals to an organ of the body, and means for applying the transmitted neuro-electrical encoded signals. to an organ of the body, to stimulate or adjust the function of the organ. The transmission means may include a digital-to-analog converter. The source of the collected neuro-electrical encoded signals comprises a computer, which has the neuro-electrical encoded signals collected in a digital format. The computer includes separate storage areas for the neuro-electrical coded signals collected from different categories.

The apparatus further includes means for collecting the neuro-electrical encoded signals of a body and cataloging and transmitting these collected neuro-electrical signals to the source. The collection means may comprise a sensor placed on the body. A recorder is provided to record the neuro-electrical encoded signals detected in analog form. An analog to digital converter is connected to the recorder to convert the neuro-electric encoded signals before being sent to a scientific computer. Additionally, the apparatus includes a digital to analog converter, for converting the collected neuro-electrical encoded signals for retransmission to a body for medical treatment purposes.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The description is described in greater detail in the following description of examples incorporating the best mode of the invention, taken in conjunction with the figures of the drawing, in which: Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a form of apparatus for practicing the method according to the invention; Figure 2 is a flow chart of the software program when the neuro-electrical encoded signals enter the computer; Figure 3 is a flow chart of the software program when the operator retrieves and transmits the neuro-electrical encoded signals from within the computer; Figures 4A to 4H are schematic views of the representative neuro-electrical coded signals, incorporating the invention, carried by the neurons, after the generation of the medulla oblongata or of the sensory neurons that go to this medulla oblongata; and Figures 5A to 5H are schematic views of the alternative neuro-electrical encoded signals, as described by the invention, that affect the nervous system.

Description of a Exemplary Modality of the Best Mode of the Invention In order to promote an understanding of the principles of the invention, reference will be made to the modality illustrated in the drawings. However, it will be understood that no attempt is made to limit the scope of the invention and there are further alternatives and modifications to the illustrated device, and these further applications of the principles of the invention, illustrated herein, are considered as occurring normally to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates. Humans and other animals, and even lower creatures of all kinds, generate electrical waveforms from their respective brains, which modulate the key aspects of vegetative systems. These neuro-electrical encoded signals are of a general linear analog format very similar in appearance, regardless of the species. Parallel lines of signals can also be transmitted simultaneously by. the medulla oblongata to help form the signaling of the neuro-electrical encoded signals. The systems of key organs, such as the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive and other systems, decode these signals and modulate or tune in fine form, themselves in response to those instructions. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) operates similarly in all species, but not exactly similar. The parallel bearers of the autonomous signals can work like the lines of a sheet of recorded music notes of different characteristics, pause or speed in the different levels. The autonomic nervous system operates without voluntary or concise control and generally controls the essential body organ systems of the vegetative state.

The invention focuses on electrical signals carried by the accessory vagus nerve and hypoglossal nerve bundles, which include efferent fibers. The vagus nerve is a wandering nerve (wandering state of the vagus nerve), which runs through the body, emerging from the medulla oblongata, located in the hidden brain. The hypoglossal and accessory nerves also emerge from the medulla oblongata and are intertwined with the vagus nerve to harmoniously achieve basic life support. The signals travel on the surface of the vagus nerve, but under its insulating myelin sheath. The electrical output of the selected efferent and afferent nerves can be made inaccessible by means of tungsten, copper, platinum, silver, gold or other metal wires, or voltage clamps or patch electrodes, and even seismic sensors, with other methods detection. The particular apparatus for detecting that output is not part of the present invention. The afferent and efferent nerves travel in the same nerve bundle or they can be guided separately. To gain direct measurement of neuro-electrical coded signals, it may be required initially to rough the insulator fascicle and the myelin sheath. Antennas seismic, ultrasonic, receiver, direct conduction and other methods can be used to capture brain-encoded signals, as they relate to the performance of the body organ. These signals are then stored and duplicated for electric return to the appropriate site for medical treatment, related to the modulation of organ function. The skin usually has a resistance of 1000 to 30,000 ohms, while the interior of the body is very conductive. Toas the coded signals operate at less than 1 volt, naturally. A voltage of up to 20 volts may be applied, in accordance with the invention, to allow loss of voltage during transmission or conduction of the required coded signals. The current must always be less than amps produced by the invention. The direct conduction in the nerves is by means of electrodes, directly connected to each nerve, which will probably have outputs less than 3 volts, and currents less than one tenth of an ampere. Up to 10 or more channels can be used simultaneously to exercise medical treatment on an organ, gland, muscle or nerve, to assist a patient in moving or performing tasks for their medical treatment. The invention comprises a method for recording, storing and transmitting neuro-specific encoded signals to modulate the functioning of organs of the human body or of animals. One form of the method for recording, storing and transmitting neuro-electrical encoded signals, as shown in Figure 1, is comprised of at least one sensor in the form of a treatment member 10, an analog recorder 12, an analog converter 14 in digital, a computer 15 and a converter 18 digital in analog. The treatment member 10 may be attached to a nerve 20 in the human or animal body, and detects the neuro-electrical encoded signals from the nerve 20. In one embodiment, the treatment member 10 may be an electrode comprised of a wire of copper, platinum, gold, silver, tungsten or any wire suitable for conducting perceptible electrical signals, carried by the nerve 20. In an alternative embodiment, the treatment member 10 may have the shape of a bar, an antenna or any other suitable configuration for transmitting and detecting the neuro-electrical encoded signals. The treatment member 10 may also be coated with Mylar. Teflon or any other suitable coating to resist corrosion. The neuro-electrical encoded signal is recorded by an analog recorder 12,. because the nerve 20 only transmits electrical signals in analog form. Once the neuro-electric encoded signals are sent from the analog 12 recorder to the analog 14 digital converter. This converter 14, in a conventional manner, transforms the neuro-electrical encoded signals of the analog format into a digital format, which is more suitable for the computer process. The converter 14 then transmits the converted neuro-electrical encoded signals to a computer 16, where the neuro-electrical encoded signals are processed, stored, adjusted and / or transmitted, as desired. The computer 16 is capable of processing signals at speeds of up to 10 million bytes of information per second. Selected signals that have been digitized can be transferred to a specific application processor or a linear analog device, which is to be used to prepare the transmission signals recognized by the brain or a selected organ as a modulation treatment. When the operator directs the computer 16 to retrieve and transmit the neuro-electrical encoded signal back into the body, this neuro-electrical encoded signal is transmitted from the computer 16 through the digital-to-analog converter 18. Speed output to send treatment signals can be measured in milliseconds up to a few seconds. In a conventional manner, the neuro-electrical encoded signal is converted back into analog form, because the body only transmits and uses electrical signals encoded in the analog format. If the neuro-electrical encoded signals are transmitted within the body in a digital form, the body will not recognize the transmission. Computer 16 contains software that is capable of identifying the function associated with particular neuro-electrical encoded signals. Many types of software can be developed by those skilled in the art,. to perform the functions of the invention, and the particular software is not part of the present invention. As shown in the flow diagram of Figure 2, after starting in step 22, in step 24 the computer 15 receives a digital neuro-electrical encoded signal, from the analog to digital converter 14. After the neuro-electrical encoded signal is received, the software reads this neuro-electrical encoded signal and in step 26 identifies the function of the particular neuro-electrical encoded signal. Once the software identifies the function associated with the particular neuro-electrical encoded signal, in step 28, the neuro-electrical encoded signal is directed to a particularized storage area. For example, if the neuro-electrical encoded signal is used for the digestive function, it can be stored in a separate area from the neuro-electrical encoded signal for respiratory functions. Finally, when it is decided to use the stored digital form of the neuro-electrical encoded signal, as shown in the flow diagram of Figure 3, the cycle starts at 30. and the neuro-electrical encoded signal is recovered from the area storage, as shown in step 12, which was previously stored in step 28 (Figure 2). If it is determined that the neuro-electrical coded signals are to be adjusted, in order to perform a particular function, the software adjusts the neuro-electrical coded signals, as required, in step 34. However, if it is decided that the Neuro-electrical encoded signal does not need to be adjusted, step 334 is ignored and step 36 is executed, whereby the neuro-electrical encoded signal is transmitted to be the specified body organ, after conversion to the form analogous The brain often makes modifications to the neuro-electrical encoded signal for the purpose of fine tuning the function that the brain requires or needs an organ particular execute, and is also executed by the present invention. Representative neuro-electrical encoded signals that neurons carry after generation in the medulla oblongata are shown in Figure 4. Such neuro-electrical encoded signals have a central linear carrier that is analogous. The signal is of a direct current nature and has many encoded modulations that provide directions or instructions to the receiving organ or system that receives them. Other representative neuro-electrical encoded signals for signals, which can affect the nervous system, are shown in Figure 5. Neuroelectric encoded signals can provide instructions as they leave the vagus nerve or other nerve and reach the body's organs . Such signals are similar to the modulation instructions transmitted from the medulla oblongata. In one embodiment of the invention, the process of transmitting by the treatment member 10 is achieved by conduction or transmission through the skin without breaking, in a suitable selected area in the neck, head, extremities, thorn or thorax or abdomen. . Such an area will approximate a position close to the nerve or nerves of the plexus upon which the signal will be imposed. The treatment member 10 is brought into contact with the skin in a selected target area, which allows the transport of the signal to the target nerves. In an alternative embodiment of the invention, the process of transmitting the neuro-electrical encoded signal is achieved by direct conduction by attaching an electrode to the receptor nerve or plexus nerves. This requires a surgical intervention for the doctor to attach the electrode to the selected target nerve. The direct implantation in the nervous system of the selected glands, endocrine and exocrine, can be performed in order to transmit signals to control all or some of the glandular functions. Such implantation may be pre-synaptic or post-synaptic, and may be attached to the ganglion or plexus nerves, associated with the desired secretion function. In yet another embodiment of the invention, the transmission process can be non-aggressive. The non-aggressive application can be achieved by transposing the neuro-electrical encoded signal in a seismic, microphonic or photophonic form, where it is sent within a region of the head, neck, limbs, spine or thorax, in a way that Allow the appropriate nerve to receive and obey the encoded instructions of such seismic, microphonic or photophonic signal The treatment member 10 is pressed against the surface of the skin without breaking, using an electrode conductive gel or a paste medium for assist in conductivity In yet another embodiment, one or more treatment members 10 may be used to transmit selected neuro-electrical encoded signals to an organ, gland, muscle or a specific nerve or plexus nerves. be placed on or near the skin proximal to one or more selected nerves or as a technique that can be implanted.In both aggressive or non-aggressive procedures, the treatment member 10, in addition to transmitting the neuro-electrical coded signals, also operates as a sensor that provides feedback for manual or automatic adjustment of the neuro-electrical coded signals. Several features of the invention have been particularly shown and described in relation to the illustrated embodiments of the invention. However, it must be understood that these particular products and their method of manufacture, they do not limit but merely illustrate, and that the invention may be provided with a more complete interpretation within the terms of the appended claims.

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1. CLAIMS 1. A method to modulate the functioning of organs of the body, this method includes the following steps: a) collect waveforms from a body, generated in the body and carried by the neurons of the body; b) store the collected waveforms; and c) transmitting one or more of the waveforms collected to an organ of the body, to stimulate the function of this organ.
2. 2. The method, according to claim 1, wherein step "a" further includes transforming the collected waveforms into a format that can be read in a processor.
3. 3. The method, according to claim 2, wherein the transformation step comprises transforming the analog signals in digital form.
4. 4. The method, according to claim 1, wherein the step "b" further includes storing and Collect waveforms, according to the anointing performed by these waveforms.
5. 5. The method, according to claim 1, wherein step "c" further includes transmitting and collecting waveforms to a body, by means of a digital-to-analog converter.
6. 6. An apparatus for modulating the functioning of organs of the body, this apparatus comprises: a) a source of collected waveforms, which are representative of the waveforms that occur naturally within the body, and which are indicative of the functioning of the body organ; b) a means for transmitting one or more waveforms collected to the body organ; and c) means for applying the waveforms collected to the organ of the body, to stimulate or regulate the function of the organ.
7. 7. The apparatus, according to claim 6, wherein said transmission means includes a digital to analog converter.
8. 8. The apparatus, according to claim 6, wherein said source comprises a computer which has collected waveforms, which are stored in a digital format.
9. 9. The apparatus, according to claim 8, wherein said computer includes separate storage areas, to collect the waveforms of different functional categories.
10. 10. The apparatus, according to claim 6, further comprising means for collecting the waveforms from a body and transmitting these collected waveforms to said source.
11. 11. The apparatus, according to claim 10, wherein said means for collecting comprises a sensor, adapted to be placed on the body.
12. 12. The apparatus, according to claim 11, which includes a recorder, for recording the waveforms detected in the analog form.
13. 13. The apparatus, according to claim 12, which includes an analog to digital converter, connected to said recorder, to convert the detected waveforms.
14. 14. The apparatus, according to claim 11, which includes a digital to analog converter, for converting the collected waveforms.
15. 15. The apparatus, according to claim 6, wherein said application means comprises an electrode of the body.
16. 16. A method to modulate the functioning of body organs, this method comprises the following steps: a) collect the waveforms that are representative of those waveforms that occur naturally within the body, and that are carried by the neurons in the body; b) store the collected waveforms; and c) transmitting one or more of the waveforms collected to an organ of the body, to stimulate the function of the organ.
17. 17. The method, according to claim 16, wherein step "a" further includes transforming the collected waveforms into a format that can be read by a processor.
18. 18. The method, according to claim 17, wherein the transformation step comprises transforming the analog signals into digital form.
19. 19. The method, according to claim 16, wherein step "b" further includes storing said collected waveforms, according to the function performed by the waveforms.
20. 20. The method, according to claim 16, wherein step "c" further comprises transmitting said collected waveforms to a body, by means of a digital to analog converter.
21. 21. A method to modulate the functioning of muscles of the body, this method includes the following steps: a) collect the waveforms of a body, generated in the body and carried by neurons in the body; b) store the collected waveforms; and c) transmitting one or more of the waveforms collected to a muscle of the body, to stimulate muscle function.
22. 22. The method, according to claim 21, wherein step "a" further includes transforming said collected waveforms into a format that can be read by a processor.
23. 23. The method, according to claim 22, wherein the transformation step comprises transforming the analog signals in digital form.
24. 24. The method, according to claim 21, wherein step "b" further includes storing said collected waveforms, according to the function performed by said waveforms.
25. 25. The method, according to claim 21, wherein step "c" further includes transmitting said waveforms collected to a body by means of a digital to analog converter.
26. 26. An apparatus to modulate the functioning of muscles of the body, this apparatus comprises: a) a source of collected waveforms, which are representative of the waveforms that occur naturally within a body, and which are indicative of the muscular functioning of the body, - b) means for transmitting one or more of the waveforms collected to a muscle of the body; and c) means for applying the waveforms transmitted to the muscle of the body, to stimulate or regulate muscle function.
27. 27. The apparatus, according to claim 26, wherein said transmission means includes a digital to analog converter.
28. 28. The apparatus, according to claim 26, wherein said source comprises a computer having waveforms collected in the digital format.
29. 29. The apparatus, according to claim 28, in which the computer includes separate storage areas, for the collected waveforms of different functional categories.
30. 30. The apparatus, according to claim 26, further comprising means for collecting the waveforms from the body and transmit the collected waveforms to that source.
31. 31. The apparatus, according to claim 30, wherein said collecting means comprises a sensor, adapted to be placed on the body.
32. 32. The apparatus, according to claim 31 which includes a recorder, for recording the waveforms detected in the analogous manner.
33. 33. The apparatus, according to claim 32, which includes an analog to digital converter, connected to said recorder, to convert the waveforms detected.
34. 34. The apparatus, according to claim 31, which includes a digital to analog converter, for converting the collected waveforms.
35. 35. The apparatus, according to claim 26, wherein said application means comprises an electrode of the body.
36. 36. A method to modulate the muscular functioning of the body, this method comprises the following steps: a) collect the waveforms that are representative of the waveforms that occur naturally within the body, and that are carried by the neurons in the body, - b) store the collected waveforms; and c) transmitting one or more of the waveforms collected to a muscle of the body, to stimulate muscle function.
37. 37. The method, according to claim 36, wherein step "a" further includes transforming said collected waveforms into a format that can be read by a processor.
38. 38. The method, according to claim 37, wherein the transformation step comprises transforming the analog signals into digital form.
39. 39. The method, according to claim 36, wherein step "b" further includes storing said waveforms collected, according to the function performed by the waveforms.
40. 40. The method, according to claim 36, wherein, the. step "c" further includes transmitting said collected waveforms to a body, by means of a digital to analog converter.
41. 41. One method, to modulate the functioning of body glands, this method comprises the following steps: a) collect the waveforms of a body, generated in the body and carried by the neurons of the body; b) store the collected waveforms; and c) transmitting one or more of the waveforms collected to a bodily gland, to stimulate glandular function.
42. 42. The method, according to claim 41, wherein step "a" further includes transforming said collected waveforms into a format that can be read by a processor.
43. 43. The method, according to claim 42, wherein the transformation step comprises transform analog signals in digital form.
44. 44. The method, according to claim 41, wherein step "b" further includes storing said collected waveforms, according to the function performed by the waveforms.
45. 45. The method, according to claim 41, wherein step "c" further includes transmitting said collected waveforms to a body, by means of a digital to analog converter.
46. 46. An apparatus for modulating the glandular functioning of the body, this apparatus comprises: a) a source of collected waveforms, which are representative of the waveforms that occur naturally within a body, and which are indicative of the body's muscular functioning; b) means for transmitting one or more of the waveforms collected to a muscle of the body; and c) means for applying the waveforms transmitted to the body muscle, to stimulate or regulate the 'muscle function.
47. 47. The apparatus, according to claim 46, wherein said transmission means includes a digital to analog converter.
48. 48. The apparatus, according to claim 46, wherein said source comprises a computer having waveforms collected in the digital format.
49. 49. The apparatus, according to claim 48, wherein "the computer includes separate storage areas, for the collected waveforms of different functional categories.
50. 50. The apparatus, according to claim 46, further comprising means for collecting the waveforms from the body and transmitting the collected waveforms to said source.
51. 51. The apparatus, according to claim 50, wherein said collection means comprises a sensor, adapted to be placed on the body.
52. 52. The apparatus, according to claim 51 including a recorder, for recording the waveforms detected in the analog form.
53. 53. The apparatus, according to claim 52, which includes an analog to digital converter, connected to said recorder, to convert the detected waveforms.
54. 54. The apparatus, according to claim 61, which includes a digital to analog converter, for converting the collected waveforms.
55. 55. The apparatus, according to claim 46, wherein said application means comprises an electrode of the body.
56. 56. A method to modulate the glandular functioning • of the body, this method comprises the following steps: a) collect the waveforms that are representative of the waveforms that occur naturally within the body, and that are carried by the neurons in the body; b) store the collected waveforms; Y c) transmit one or more of the waveforms collected to a gland of the body, to stimulate glandular function.
57. 57. The method, according to claim 56, wherein step "a" further includes transforming said collected waveforms into a format that can be read by a processor.
58. 58. The method, according to claim 67, wherein the transformation step comprises transforming the analog signals into digital form.
59. 59. The method, according to claim 56, wherein step "b" further includes said collected waveforms, according to the function performed by these waveforms.
60. 60. The method, according to claim 56, wherein step "c" further includes transmitting said collected waveforms to a body, by means of a digital to analog converter.