WEDNESDAY, March 6 — For people suffering from severe, tough-to-treat anorexia, having a biological "pacemaker" implanted in their brain may help ease the disorder, a small new study suggests.
The researchers noted that anorexia is the psychiatric disorder with the highest mortality rate and, although therapies exist, not everyone benefits in the long term. The disorder is among the most common psychiatric ills diagnosed among teenage women. Up to 20 percent of patients do not respond to available treatments, which usually focus on behavioral change.
The new study examined the effectiveness of an approach called deep brain stimulation (DBS), sometimes called a brain pacemaker. The procedure requires surgery, but is minimally invasive and reversible, the researchers…
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