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DIY Neurophone Clones: Another Perspective

A reader weighs in with the following, and a new schematic for a DIY Neuro-clone. This approach is
a bit more complicated.
The following schematic is what the above writeup was inspired by, but does NOT implement what’s
described above. Rather, this diagram is an op-amp implementation of the Flanagan patent circuit
(US patent 3647970).

The above writeup is based on a very different circuit: a 40kHz oscillator connected to a MOSFET
driver chip (see http://homepages.which.net/~paul.hills/SpeedControl/MosfetBody.html#4) which
turns on and off a MOSFET connected in class-A mode (http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws
/amplifier/amp_5.html). This makes it possible to charge and discharge the piezo transducers in
“square wave” mode very very fast, which is apparently key to the effect.

8 comments on “DIY Neurophone Clones: Another Perspective”

leandroemile
September 14, 2015
hi can you post a pic or a video showing how it looks like ? thanks keep up the good work

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neurogeek
December 11, 2015
Sorry, I don’t have any at hand.

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Martin Nyberg
November 2, 2015
Very cool. I got A’s in electronics in high school then switched gears and now its all lost. So, I
bought the new neurophone. Now I’m thinking I am getting some positive results, and after a day
in which I used it almost non-stop for 8 hours and got an ocular migraine – it has limits that need
to be respected. But now, my wife and friends are accusing me of being sold down the river by a
snake oil salesman as I am not a walking savant yet. I am STILL looking for a real clinical study
 and/or double blind test. Any luck yourself in finding such a thing? Also – I am entertaining the
opinion that Flanagan himself has not pursued such rigorous evaluation because it opens it up to
possible lawsuits from the FDA or other quasi-gov-corp orgs with the medical instrument /
pharma lobbies $$ behind them. His goal is stated to be getting getting the price down low
enough for mass adoption. A goal that could be both noble and self serving simultaneously.

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neurogeek
December 11, 2015

I don’t know of any clinical studies or double blind tests. The Neurophone is an experimental
device.

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T Bastian
November 20, 2015
Much info and research here on the whys of how it works…. http://home.dmv.com/~tbastian
/nuroindx.htm

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neurogeek
December 11, 2015

Thanks for the heads up!

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Tyler
December 3, 2015
Can you make me one? Please?

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neurogeek
December 11, 2015

Sorry.

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