A team of doctors is researching how a certain type of brain surgery can be used to treat obesity.
Doctors at the Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network are using an experimental brain surgery to try to change the patient’s metabolism.
It’s called deep brain stimulation and is also used to treat other things such as Parkinson’s disease, but doctors say it shows promise for obesity as well.
“All of the treatments for obesity right now are outside of the brain,” said Dr. Donald Whiting, the Chief Medical Officer & Chair of Neuroscience Institute at AHN. “But the brain is where a lot of the control and the energy balance and the desire is mediated.”
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