Deep brain stimulation may offer treatment for Type 2 diabetes, study suggests
A surprising side effect of a therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder may lead to a new approach to treating Type 2 diabetes - and offer new insights into the links between obesity and the metabolic disease that afflicts nearly 10 percent of adults in the U.S.
The therapy is deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens, a structure best known for its role in motivation, reward and addiction. It now appears that deep brain stimulation also increases the liver's and muscles' ability to take up and use insulin, researchers reported this past week in the journal
