Brain Stimulation Treatment of Binge Eating Disorder Shows ‘Encouraging Results’: Trial

Published on June 6, 2024

A new way of treating binge eating disorder at home using electrical brain stimulation, has shown “encouraging” results, clinicians have said. Participants in a clinical trial by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London reported changes in their eating behaviour and lasting weight loss. Researchers applied a treatment that combines a technique called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with a training programme that targets unhelpful patterns of attention around food. Gentle electrical stimulation is applied via electrodes placed on the scalp to selected areas of the brain. It changes the function in the prefrontal areas of the brain, while attention bias modification training (ABMT) helps patients regulate their biases towards food cues....

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