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Podcast: Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Episode: Dr. Blake Woodside, MD: Deep Brain Stimulation for Eating Disorders
Description: Comments or feedback? Send us a text! Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa can reflect among the most severe and debilitating forms of mental illness. In fact, anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any form of mental illness and unfortunately for a subset of clients, all current "gold standard" treatments can prove ineffective. Dr. Blake Woodside, MD, a pioneer in the revolutionary use of deep brain stimulation for treatment resistant eating disorders joins us to discuss: the history and development of DBS how Dr. Woodside personally became interested in DBS for eating disordersa description of th...