larry: neurosurgeons from the university health science center targets the brain and not the belly. here to talk about it is dr. julian bales, he s a neurosurgeon at west virginia university. what have we discovered? explain what this dbs is, doctor. this is inserts electrodes deep in the hypothalamus, this study will see if this possibly will have some benefit for patients with morbid obesity, the ones that really their life expectancy will be affected. larry: does it work? electrodes are placed in the hypothalamus into the center that makes you feel full. the other part is your appetite center where your drive to eating is. these electrodes have contacts on them that go through these areas and a pacemaker type generator is inserted under the skin and from that we re able to change the settings and try to see if we can affect the appetite drive these patients
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