A sleep mask includes a flexible eye cover configured to be worn by a late-term pregnant female and configured to cover and shield the eyes of the wearer from ambient light. At least one light source is carried by the flexible eye cover and positioned to emit light having a wavelength of 450 to 570 nm onto the eyelids of the wearer when asleep and penetrate the eyelids when closed. A controller is connected to the at least one light source and configured to activate the light source to decrease endogenous melatonin levels and suppress uterine contractions in the late-term pregnant female.

Systems and methods for mapping neuronal circuitry in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for generating a neuronal shape graph, including obtaining functional brain imaging data from an imaging device, where the functional brain imaging data includes a time-series of voxels describing neuronal activation over time in a patient's brain, lowering the dimensionality of the functional brain imaging data to a set of points, where each point represents the brain state at a particular time in the timeseries, binning the points into a plurality of bins, clustering the binned points, and generating a shape graph from the clustered points, where nodes in the shape graph represent a brain state and edges between the nodes represent transitions between brain states.

A device that suppresses a pathological synchronous and oscillatory neuron activity, and includes a non-invasive stimulation for stimulation, using stimuli, of neurons in the patient's brain and/or spinal cord, where those neurons are showing pathologically synchronous and oscillatory neuron activity, and the stimuli are designed to suppress are this activity when administered to the patient. Moreover, a measuring unit records measurement signals reflecting the neuron activity of the stimulated neurons and a control and analysis unit controls the stimulation unit to administer stimuli, check the success of stimulation based on the measurement, and, if the stimulation success is not sufficient, insert one or more stimulation breaks in the application of the stimuli or extend one or more stimulation breaks, where no stimuli that could suppress the pathological synchronous and oscillatory neuron activity are applied during the stimulation breaks.

A method for non-invasively resolving electrophysiological activity in sub-cortical structures located deep in the brain by comparing amplitude-insensitive M/EEG field patterns arising from activity in subcortical and cortical sources under physiologically relevant sparse constraints is disclosed. The method includes a sparse inverse solution for M/EEG subcortical source modeling. Specifically, the method employs a subspace-pursuit algorithm rooted in compressive sampling theory, performs a hierarchical search for sparse subcortical and cortical sources underlying the measurement, and estimates millisecond-scale currents in these sources to explain the data. The method can be used to recover thalamic and brainstem contributions to non-invasive M/EEG data, and to enable non-invasive study of fast timescale dynamical and network phenomena involving widespread regions across the human brain.

The present invention discloses a carbon dioxide inhalation treatment device for central sleep apnea comprising a blower, a gas cylinder filled with carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2), an airbag, a mask, and a detection mechanism for detecting the central apnea by measuring the electromyographic activity of the chest wall muscles. The mask is provided with multiple holes providing a communication between the inside and outside of the mask in order to prevent any sense of resistance of breathing and to provide greater control of inspired CO.sub.2. Inspired CO.sub.2 from a gas mixture containing also a minimum 20% O.sub.2 is driven by air using a blower into a mixing chamber. This carbon dioxide inhalation treatment device for central sleep apnea can provide a stable, mild level of carbon dioxide for patients with central sleep apnea, thus by preserving respiratory drive correcting central sleep apnea without increasing the arousal and microarousal frequency.

A method and program product includes assigning a first location of at least one embedded device. The embedded device includes at least one sensor and is associated with a one joint capable of movement. The first location is captured by the sensor. A second location of the at least one embedded device is assigned. The second location being captured by observation of the embedded device by at least one external sensor. A pose correspondence between the first location and the second location is established using a model of the joint. The sensor is calibrated by tracking a change in a pose captured by the external sensor and a change in a pose captured by the one sensor as the joint moves.

A medical system includes a network; one or more medical data collection appliances coupled to the network, each appliance transmitting data conforming to an interoperable format; and a server coupled to the network to store data for each individual in accordance with the interoperable format.

An implanted device for an organ of a patient including a housing. The device includes a detector having electrodes that have a varying distance over time between them which produces a detector signal based on electrical signals derived from the organ. The device includes a signal processor disposed in the housing in communication with the detector which determines admittance from the detector signal based on the varying distance over time between the electrodes. The device includes a drive circuit disposed in the housing to cause the electrodes to generate emitted electrical signals. A method for monitoring a patient's organ.

An information display device includes a component extraction unit configured to extract a requested component from multiple given waveforms that are cut out of multiple signal waveforms based on biological signals that are detected; and a noise component selection unit configured to accept selecting, as a noise component, a result of the extracting from multiple results of the extracting by the component extraction unit, and the noise component selection unit displays the multiple results of the extracting by the component extraction unit and times at which the specific waveforms occur.

An information display device includes a component extraction unit configured to extract a requested component from multiple given waveforms that are cut out of multiple signal waveforms based on biological signals that are detected; and a noise component selection unit configured to accept selecting, as a noise component, a result of the extracting from multiple results of the extracting by the component extraction unit, and the noise component selection unit displays the multiple results of the extracting by the component extraction unit and times at which the specific waveforms occur.