How do the electrical impulses work?
Anne-Marie Melanson: The neuroregulator — the external coil — will send a signal to the neuroregulator that’s under the skin and the insulated leads that thread up to the vagal nerve will enter around the vagal nerve. So this impulse will send a block so that the impulses coming down from the brain will be blocked. How does it know when to send the signal? Anne-Marie Melanson: The controller is programmed to send impulses on intervals. I’m not sure what the intervals are going to be. The company is deciding, but it could be three seconds on, three seconds off — something like that. It won’t be a continuous block, because you do need your vagal nerve, but it will block it intermittently. How does the device work? Anne-Marie Melanson: It’s a computer program, so every time a patient comes in — a subject comes in — I would take the controller and program it through the computer that Entromedics supplies. You program the controller that works the external coil with parameters, that wi
