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Derrick Buchanan

Derrick Buchanan

Dr Derrick Buchanan is a PhD clinical neuroscientist and postdoctoral scholar in Stanford University's Department of Psychiatry and a researcher in the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab, and a serial neurotech founder, author, and TEDxStanford speaker.

Aug 24, 2026

1:46
Talk us about the journey in between, your backstory to date.
1:49
Yeah, I would love to go through it.
1:52
Hopefully, I'll, I'll do my best to give you, uh, the short highlights.
1:56
Correct, I did come from Canada.
1:57
I grew up in a town called Oshawa, it's not far from Toronto, where we have some, uh, really robust TMS and brain stimulation program actually in Toronto, that is.
2:07
And I spent 11 years in Ottawa, that's Canada's capital, where our parliament is, and that's where I did my undergraduate and graduate school, my PhD in clinical neuroscience.
2:18
Largely that was also in collaboration at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.

21 MINS LATER

23:26
So what do you think is holding the sector back?

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