Apparatuses and methods for treating neurological and/or neuropsychiatric disorders are by application of thermal energy to the patient's forehead region, for example, by maintaining a target temperature or temperature range to the forehead of a patient for a time period. In particular, described herein are regional brain cooling mechanisms to treat neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, and autism.

Methods, systems and devices for reducing anxiety, including increasing relaxation and/or calm. In some variations these methods may include reducing anxiety, increase relaxation and/or calm by non-invasive temperature regulation of the frontal cortex prior to and/or during sleep. The subject may have an anxiety disorder, or may not have a diagnosed anxiety disorder.

A U sleep weighted pillow promotes healthy sleep essential oils is presented. The U sleep weighted pillow provides comfort to a head, to an upper portion of the face, for body aches and pains. The U sleep weighted pillow provides a warming or a cooling to a desired body part while a person is laying down, sitting, etc. The U sleep weighted pillow further has custom weighting and firmness of the U sleep weighted pillow by the person. The U sleep weighted pillow helps restore movement from injured tissue, reduces joint stiffness, muscle spasms, sprains, strains, whiplash, pain relief, ease pain from both acute and chronic injuries, arthritis, promotes blood circulation and helps to relax muscle.

A detachable cooling apparatus comprises: a distal miming catheter forming a distal lumen that provides liquid as an input and a proximal miming catheter forming a proximal lumen that receives the liquid as an output, where the proximal miming catheter is connected to the distal running catheter. A focal hypothermia-inducing fluidics system comprises a thermal management and flow system (TMFS) that is operable to alter a liquid to a specific temperature and to regulate a flow rate, a closed-circuit flow system with a detachable cooling apparatus, a distal sensor array, a pump for moving the liquid through the TMFS, an inflow port that receives the liquid from the proximal running catheter, a plurality of capillary tubes that cool the liquid, and an outflow port that returns the liquid to the distal miming catheter.

Afforded is a medical head-cooling cap set that heightens scalp-cooling efficiency and that fitted on to a user's head produces no pressuring feeling nor slips out of place. The cap set is constituted from a head-cooling cap, an inner cap, and an outer cap. Two first belts that are drawn out from either side of the outer-cap opening part and stretch to the exterior are linkable by a first fastener, and after the head has been passed into the opening and the outer cap has been donned, the belts can be fastened neck-area-forward by the fastener; meanwhile, two second belts that extend from alongside the rear part mid-brim and head front brim-ward are linkable by a second clasp, and after the head has been passed into the opening and the outer cap has been donned, the second belts can be fastened around the forehead by the clasp.

Thermal management devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a representative device can comprise (i) thermoelectric components (TECs) each including a first side configured to be operated at a desired temperature and a second side opposite the first side, and (ii) a heat transfer system including an array of fluid distribution networks, an inlet passage coupled to the fluid distribution networks, and an outlet passage coupled to the fluid distribution networks. In operation, a working fluid flows through the fluid distribution networks from the inlet passage to the outlet passage, and absorbs heat from the fluid distribution networks. The inlet and outlet passages can be fluidically coupled to individual fluid distribution networks such that pressure drop and/or temperature drop of the working fluid across the individual fluid distribution networks is about the same as one another.

A device for indirect temperature regulation of the brain of a human via a nasal cavity thereof, the device comprising: a membrane having a membrane surface area, a length, a center point with respect to the length, a width, and a center point with respect to the width, said membrane adapted to be arranged in contact with a surface of the nasal cavity, said membrane defining a closed volume and having the shape of the nasal cavity such that when in use, it expands and conforms to the nasal cavity, a first catheter, a second catheter, and means for circulating said fluid into said volume via said first catheter and out of said volume via said second catheter.

A medical cooling device for reducing the body core temperature of a patient and a method for operating the same are provided. The cooling process provided by the medical cooling device is based on the state or degree of shivering of the patient.

This present disclosure provides devices, systems, and methods relating to modulating the temperature of a target tissue in a subject for various therapeutic purposes. In particular, the present disclosure provides devices, systems, and methods for the focal delivery of cytostatic hypothermia to a target tissue to treat a disease or condition in a subject (e.g., cancerous tumors).

A headpiece includes a shell, a thermoelectric cooler, a heat sink and a fan. The shell defines a concavity. The thermoelectric cooler includes a cooling surface and a warming surface. The heat sink is in thermal communication with the warming surface. The fan is in fluid communication with the heat sink.