Board Certified in both Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

• Neurosurgery Residency at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine.
• Chief Resident, Neurosurgery, at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine.
• Epilepsy Surgery/Functional Neurosurgery Fellowship at Yale University, School of Medicine.

• Psychiatry Residency at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine.
• Chief Resident, Psychiatry, at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine.
• Psychopharmacology and Psychobiology Fellowship in the National Institute of Mental Health Research Unit, UCSD.

Dr. Buchanan is on the cutting edge of scientific and medical discovery, he is one of the scientists adding to the fund of biomedical knowledge. He and his laboratory have published articles in some of the highest impact medical journals in the world including The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SCIENCE Advances, Hippocampus, among others. He has been mentored by leading scientists during his education and training at the University of Chicago, St. Louis University, University of California-San Diego, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Yale University. Notable mentors have been the Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick, Larry Squire, and Fred Gage.

AdVance 2-STUDY is ON_HOLD

Deep Brain Stimulation for patients with Alzheimer's Disease in the early stages. Patients who think they may be eligible for the ADvance II Study can visit mildalzheimersstudy.com or call 512-270-9039 to learn more.

Recover

Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Depression.

Dr. Buchanan was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life, which is the Vatican's bioethics center, Because of his multifaceted career in neuroscience (Psychiatrist, Neurosurgeon, and Neuroscientist) he was named the Chairperson of the Committee on Ethics, Consciousness, and Neuroscience. His committee address issues confronting humanity such as cognitive enhancement, gene manipulations, use of technologies to "read" people's minds, equitable distribution of medical technologies, just to name a few.

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