Always on the lookout for innovations in treatment, today was the first time I've heard report of using deep brain stimulation for anorexia . Small study, extreme cases, but interesting.
DBS has been used to treat Parkinson's and depression . And vagus nerve stimulation has been used with bulimia , depression, and epilepsy.
It makes you wonder, if therapies like this can work, what are they fixing? Not society. Not the bullies, or the models, or swapping out for different parents. Something in the brain is being altered, or blocked, or reconnected. There is so much to learn.
Always on the lookout for innovations in treatment, today was the first time I've heard report of using deep brain stimulation for anorexia . Small study, extreme cases, but interesting.
DBS has been used to treat Parkinson's and depression . And vagus nerve stimulation has been used with bulimia , depression, and epilepsy.
It makes you wonder, if therapies like this can work, what are they fixing? Not society. Not the bullies, or the models, or swapping out for different parents. Something in the brain is being altered, or blocked, or reconnected. There is so much to learn.