Dr. Casey Halpern and colleagues at Stanford use stimulating brain electrodes to induce weight loss in patients with binge eating disorder. 

Guest: Casey Halpern MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Epilepsy Surgery at Stanford University. 

Host: Pardis Zarifkar

Study:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03868670

For more information on Dr. Casey Halpern’s work:

https://med.stanford.edu/neurosurgery/research/welcome-to-the-halpern-malenka-lab.html