Patent ID: 8337382
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method for treating a psychiatric behavioral disorder or hyperphagia of a patient, the behavioral disorder or hyperphagia associated with a level of neuronal activity in a neural circuit within a brain of the patient and provoking deleterious volitional behavior by the patient, the method comprising: transmitting a cellularly sub-lethal quantity of ionizing radiation from outside the patient into a target within the brain of the patient so as to alter the level of neuronal activity in the neural circuit such that the behavioral disorder or hyperphagia is mitigated, wherein the radiation is transmitted from a radiation source machine outside the patient, through a skull of the patient and into the brain of the patient along a plurality of beam paths directed from varying directions so as to intersect with the target; and performing a clinical evaluation indicating that the behavioral disorder or hyperphagia is mitigated.