A pilot study reveals that an implanted brain stimulator significantly decreased bingeing episodes and assisted patients in losing weight. According to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a small device that detects food craving-related brain activity
The patients reported significantly fewer binge episodes and weight loss after six months of treatment.
“This was an early feasibility study in which we were primarily assessing safety, but certainly the robust clinical benefits these patients reported to us are really impressive and exciting,” said study senior author Casey Halpern, MD, an associate professor of Neurosurgery and chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at Penn Medicine and the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
The device used by the researchers to capture signals from and stimulate the mice’s brains is commercially accessible and authorized for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy. It is surgically implanted under the scalp, with wires extending through the skull to each brain hemisphere’s nucleus accumbens.
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