5 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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0:00.0 | Bone, I saw this today. |
0:01.1 | I thought of you. |
0:01.9 | All right. |
0:02.6 | And me. |
0:03.5 | Okay. |
0:04.2 | Electric shocks to the brain took away the cravings of two patients with binge eating disorders for at least six months. |
0:12.1 | A small study said, well, if it's two patients, that's pretty small. |
0:16.9 | That study. |
0:18.2 | Who commissioned this study? |
0:21.2 | A creepy guy in his basement? |
0:23.2 | Like, what is this? |
0:24.2 | Two patients were fitted with a brain implant to zap the part of the brain linked to cravings. |
0:30.9 | They told the New York Times that after the surgery, they made better choices about food without even thinking about it. |
0:37.1 | I just love how we've come full circle. |
0:39.2 | Back in the day, Jimmy Pearsall going crazy on the baseball field. |
0:44.9 | He goes and gets shock therapy. |
0:46.8 | That was common medical practice. |
0:49.1 | Oh, you're bipolar or they called it then manic depression? |
0:53.1 | Right. |
0:53.6 | Right? |
0:53.8 | We're going to shock you. Shock your brain. And then we looked at that and said, that's pretty manic depression? Right. Right? We're going to shock you. |
0:54.7 | Shock your brain. |
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