DOYLE JOHN BORCHERS, M.D.
Medical Practice at Pasteur Dr, Palo Alto, CA
License number
California A064879
Category
Medical Practice
Type
Neurological Surgery
Address
Address
300 Pasteur Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94305
Phone
(650) 498-5710
Professional information
Doyle John Borchers, Stanford CA
Specialties:
Neurosurgeon
Address:
300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford, CA 94305
Radiosurgical Neuromodulation Devices, Systems, And Methods For Treatment Of Behavioral Disorders By External Application Of Ionizing Radiation
US Patent:
2009011, May 7, 2009
Filed:
Oct 30, 2008
Appl. No.:
12/261347
Inventors:
M. Bret Schneider - Portola Valley CA, US
Doyle John Borchers - Palo Alto CA, US
Michele Borchers - Palo Alto CA, US
Doyle John Borchers - Palo Alto CA, US
Michele Borchers - Palo Alto CA, US
International Classification:
A61N 5/00
US Classification:
2504921
Abstract:
Radiosurgical techniques and systems treat behavioral disorders (such as depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (“OCD”), addiction, hyperphagia, and the like) by directing radiation from outside the patient toward a target tissue within the patient's brain, typically without imposing surgical trauma. The target will often be included in a neural circuit associated with the behavioral disorder. A cellularly sub-lethal dose of the radiation may be applied and the radiation can mitigate the behavioral disorder, obesity, or the like, by modulating the level of neural activity within the target and in associated tissues. Hypersensitive and/or hyperactive neuronal tissue may be targeted, with the radiation downwardly modulating hyperactive neuronal activity. By down-regulating the activity of a target that normally exerts negative feedback or a limiting effect on a relevant neural circuit, the activity of the circuit may be increased.