A jolt of electricity to a part of the brain implicated in food cravings appears to tamp down impulses at the heart of binge eating disorder.
A well-timed jolt of high-frequency electricity to a region of the brain implicated in food cravings appears to tamp down the impulses at the heart of binge eating disorder, researchers report.
The two patients who volunteered for the study were women who had struggled for years with out-of-control eating and were willing to let researchers implant a suite of four electrodes in their brains. "They couldn't completely control themselves around food," said Dr. Casey H. Halpern, a neurosurgeon at Penn and one of the study's co-authors."They craved food, and they were emotional eaters."
If the pre-binge electrical pattern didn't immediately respond, the stimulation was repeated until it did. All told, each woman got an average of roughly 10 minutes a day of electrical stimulation — a far more limited use than is common in the treatment of disorders like OCD. Watch Now: Boosting your heart health after COVID, and more videos to improve your life Here are some tips for improving your heart health after COVID, how to break free if your parents had bad money habits, and more videos to improve your life.
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