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A review article in the August issue of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, suggests that scientific advances in understanding the "addiction circuitry" of the brain could effectively treat obesity using deep brain stimulation (DBS).
DBS is currently a successful treatment for Parkinson's disease, and could potentially be a new way to treat obesity by electrical brain stimulation targeting the "dysregulated reward circuitry", Dr. Alexander Taghva of Ohio State Univeristy and University of Southern California and colleagues revealed.
New Understanding of 'Reward 'Circuitry'
These days there are more and more people suffering with the severe health problem of obesity, however it is still extremely difficult to treat. Ironically, patients usually gain weight right after they finish treatment, even though many approaches promote weight loss. Several products have been taken off the market because of serious adverse effects, while most drugs have been unsuccessful.
Although bariatric surgery has proven effective in a number of obese cases, it still has a significant failure rate with people experiencing bad side effects.
http://www.southasiamail.com/news.php?id=106441
DBS is currently a successful treatment for Parkinson's disease, and could potentially be a new way to treat obesity by electrical brain stimulation targeting the "dysregulated reward circuitry", Dr. Alexander Taghva of Ohio State Univeristy and University of Southern California and colleagues revealed.
New Understanding of 'Reward 'Circuitry'
These days there are more and more people suffering with the severe health problem of obesity, however it is still extremely difficult to treat. Ironically, patients usually gain weight right after they finish treatment, even though many approaches promote weight loss. Several products have been taken off the market because of serious adverse effects, while most drugs have been unsuccessful.
Although bariatric surgery has proven effective in a number of obese cases, it still has a significant failure rate with people experiencing bad side effects.
http://www.southasiamail.com/news.php?id=106441