In a mouse, if you do continuous stimulation, the sort of blockade of binge eating goes away. So I've always encouraged my colleagues to consider more of an episodic stimulation approach rather than continuous deep brain stimulation. The goal in the operating room was to identify a craving cell, deliver stimulation safely, but also to capture a moment of elevated mood.

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