Methods for receiving a patient mark in an implanted device. A patient may
experience symptoms that indicative of a neurological event or are common
precursors to more severe clinical symptoms. The patient may activate a
patient activator. Activation of the patient activator can cause the
patient activator to transmit the patient mark to an implanted device.
The implanted device may adjust physiological data being stored in
response to the patient mark, including data before and after the patient
mark. The patient mark may be used to fine tune the detection algorithms
and otherwise tune the detection capability of the implanted device and
may also be used as an aid in statistical analysis of the stored
physiological data.