US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on March 24 for "Molecular targets for modulation of dissociative and associative states" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,616, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Molecular targets for modulation of dissociative and associative states" was invented by Isaac V. Kauvar (Atherton, Calif.), Sam Vesuna (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Karl A. Deisseroth (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of treating a subject for a dissociative disorder and methods of screening agents for the ability to modulate dissociative and associative states in a subject are provided. In particular, agents that alter rhythmic neural activity in the posteromedial cortex can be used to modul...