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Cure for Food Addiction?

Eating Disorders

Gastric implants may prove to be the cure for people with compulsive eating problems:

“We found that implantable gastric stimulators induced significant changes in metabolism in brain regions associated with controlling emotions, effectively shutting down these obese subjects’ desire to eat,” said Dr Wang.

The changes were most noticeable in the hippocampus area of the brain. This is linked to emotional behaviour, learning and memory, movement, and processing of sensory information.

Obese may be food junkies

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