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Can Electrodes Drilled Into The Brain Assist In Weight Loss?
How far can you go in an attempt to lose flab, fraught enough to have your brain drilled with electrodes? Well, that the newest advancement to combating obesity now under testing. With the experts cautioning about the obesity wave riding high, many pharmaceutical companies and medics are constantly evolving novel ways and means to deal with overweight issues.
Prescription medicines have been the latest line of treatment with tablets like Alli been administered that work by decreasing the quantity of fat absorption in the body. There are lot more people opting for gastric banding operation that re-structures the stomach so that people eat lesser.
But the radical advancement in US to inhibit obesity called Deep Brain Stimulation or DBS literally takes the cake. In this treatment, electrodes are inserted into the brain to convey tiny spurts of electricity that modify the eating behaviour of the person. Though DBS is currently the treatment given for disorders related to movement like [...]

