Dr. Patrick Flanagan™ was a child prodigy in electronics, chemistry and physics. The Neurophone was invented in 1958 when he was 14 years old.
It is a precision scientific instrument with a large digital signal processor that encodes sound and modulates it into ultrasonic signals.
He discovered an entirely new way of transmitting sound to the human brain. Dr. Patrick™'s profound invention has received two US patents, 3,393,279 and 3,647,970.
It has taken medical science 33 years to discover how the device works.
Great inventions take 50 years to be understood. In 1991, Martin Lenhardt of the University of Virginia discovered that humans have the ability to detect ultrasonic sound when it is transmitted through skin, bone and body fluids.
His revolutionary discovery was published in the prestigious journal Science, Vol. 253, 5, 1991, 82. Lenhardt had duplicated Dr. Flanagan™'s original 1958 Neurophone using sophisticated ultrasonic transducers and discovered that a tiny organ in the inner ear normally associated with balance is also a hearing organ for ultrasonic sound.
The organ is called the saccule and is about the size of a pea. It contains nerve endings, called maculae, and an otolith, a gelatinous cap containing fine particles of calcium carbonate, called otoconia. When the head tilts in relation to gravity, the macula sends a signal to the vestibulocochlear nerve of the nervous system to restore balance. The saccule has nerve endings that are distributed throughout the brain. Some of these nerves go to the area of the brain that calculates sound. Other nerves are distributed in areas related to long-term memory.
The Neurophone transmits ultrasonic sound modulated at 40,000 cycles per second (40 kHz). When swimming with dolphins or whales, humans hear the ultrasonic energy emitted by these mammals through the saccule. Using the Neurophone, brain pathways can be trained to "hear" through the saccule pathway.
Human ancestors may have communicated with whales and dolphins using ultrasonic sounds.
Cuando se utiliza el Neuófono como dispositivo de escucha experimental, estas vías se desarrollan y parecen ampliar la conciencia equilibrando los hemisferios izquierdo y derecho del cerebro.