A Coimbatore city Hospital has tested a new approach to treating alcohol addiction, by performing deep Brain stimulation. Three weeks later the patient is said to be recovering well and has not asked for a single sip of alcohol. The Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital (KMCH) doctors inserted a small electrode connected to a pace maker into a deep part of the brain known as the nucleus accumbence. The patient, a businessman from Sathyamangalam is a severe alcoholic who first came to the ..