Obesity as a "brain disease"; a driver for new therapies

11 May 2015


Speaking at the 2015 European Congress on Obesity, bariatric surgeon Carel Le Roux, MBChB, PhD, of University College Dublin, Ireland, suggested that although labelling obesity as a brain disease "is controversial," it is necessary to "allow us to shift our thinking" and better understand the physiology of the condition for the development of new treatments.  Medscape


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