26 Mar 2013

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Woman cured of severe anorexia after doctors 'rewire' her brain to switch off negative thoughts about food

  • Kim Rollins, 36, suffered from severe anorexia since she was 15-years-old
  • Her weight dropped to five stone and she had two strokes and a heart attack
  • In a final attempt to save her doctors carried out pioneering surgery
  • Electrodes, powered by a pacemaker in her heart, were attached to her brain
  • Device blocks the abnormal nerve signals which trigger anorexic thoughts
  • She had now returned to a healthy weight and is taking a Master's degree
By Emma Innes
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A woman has been cured of anorexia thanks to pioneering surgery that 'rewired' her brain.

Kim Rollins, 36, was on the brink of death after suffering a heart attack, two strokes and broken bones since the onset of the eating disorder when she was 15.

By her early twenties she weighed less than a seven-year-old child and could barely face eating half an apple a day.