By Nancy Lapid

(Reuters) -Researchers monitoring the brain activity of a patient with a severe binge-eating problem reported that Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 weight-loss drug appeared to temporarily suppress food-craving signals in the “reward center” of the brain.

These are the first direct measurements of brain activity in a person receiving tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for weight loss, shedding light on the treatment’s impact on so-called food noise.

The report, published on Monday in Nature Medicine, describes the effect of tirzepatide on a single individual, and the findings cannot be generalized to others, the researchers cautioned. But it may suggest a role for future versions of Mounjaro or other GLP-1 drugs in treating certain eating disorders, they said.

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