The invention provides a micro-control neuroprosthetic device and methods
for predicting and controlling epileptic neuronal activity. The device
includes a detection system that detects and collects
electrophysiological information comprising action potentials from single
neurons and ensembles of neurons in a neural structure such as an
epileptogenic region of the brain in a subject. An analysis system
included in the neuroprosthetic device evaluates the electrophysiological
information and performs a real-time extraction of neuron firing features
from which the system determines when stimulus intervention is required.
The neuroprosthetic device further comprises a stimulation intervention
system that provides stimulus output signals having a desired stimulation
frequency and stimulation intensity directly to the neural structure in
which abnormal neuronal activity is detected. The analysis system further
analyzes collected electrophysiological information during or following
stimulus intervention to assess the effects of the stimulation
intervention and to provide outputs to maintain or modify the stimulation
intervention.