Scientist Find Hope For Severe Anorexia Nervosa Patients Using ‘Brain Pacemaker’

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Canadian scientists are offering good news to patients with severe anorexia, whom usually the doctors do not have anything to offer other than watching them slowly starve themselves to death. However, now Canadian scientists are working on another approach that might help them treat these patients using deep brain stimulation through implanting a device like a pacemaker. Even though the treatment may seem intense and risky, but for patients that have already lost a dangerous amount of weight, this is a completely new and only approach which might offer them a hope of survival at all.

In a recent study published in The Lancet, the researchers of Toronto’s Krembil Neuroscience Centre attempted to try and stimulate an area of the brain called the corpus callosum, which is apparently a thick bundle of nerve fibres dividing the left and right sides of the brain. The area is already being used for deep stimulation to treat patients with depression. The research enlisted six women as recruit, who were suffering from anorexia nervosa, between 4 and 37 years and implanted electrodes into their brains.

Even though the initial study was originally anticipated to only examine the safety of the procedure, within a few months, a majority of patients started showing signs of improvement in both their mood and their weight. A psychiatrist at Toronto General Hospital, who specializes in eating disorders, Dr. Blake Woodside, alleged that “given the lack of advances in treating anorexia nervosa in the last 30 years, if these treatment results continue it represents significant hope for that group of patients.”

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