Neuro Device Voic will be the first in the world comprehensive rehabilitation system for enhancing aphasia treatment based on non-invasive brain stimulation technology with a patient- centered approach. It is on its way to disrupt the quality of therapy, enhancing and accelerating its results while making it more accessible and affordable for patients all around the world. Neuro Device Voic will be a system for post-stroke therapy, which will be used in the treatment of aphasia by electrical brain stimulation. There were similar projects discovered that show the current state of the art. However, neither of them could be considered as prior art to the key features of the invention proposed by Neuro Device.
Opportunities for treating aphasia are currently very limited. The state-of-the-art therapy is based on the work of neuro-speech therapists and neuropsychologists. Exercises consist of solving language tasks and repeating words, phrases, or sentences. However, before this happens, the therapist's job is to monitor the patient's communication skills constantly and to establish eye-emotional contact, gesture and, if possible, verbal communication. If the therapy is conducted by public health, waiting time is up to 2-3 months (improvement in first months is critical). If it is done in private medical centres, the costs are high (40 - 200 EUR/hour), depending on the country, the qualifications of the therapist, and possible extra costs. The main challenge in the therapy is to make the initial contact with the patient where complete blockage of communication may occur. Traditional treatment, therefore, rarely yields the expected results in the total restoration of speech. We overcome this blockage by providing VOIC neural priming, which initially activates the brain mitigating the communication with the patient.
