Saturday, 25 September 2021

Woman loses ability to feel hunger after a stroke

Photo of open fridge filled with food

A 28-year-old Canadian woman had a stroke in a part of the brain known as the insular cortex—and after she recovered, she found she'd lost any sense of hunger.

She lost over 10 kilograms because she'd forget to eat. As this piece in Revyuh notes, when doctors examined her…

… they found that even with a lack of calories, the woman did not feel any physiological signals that it was time for her to eat, for example, a rumbling in her stomach. Despite

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