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Lobotomy and tractotomy

 
National Institutes of Health

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Craniectomy, suboccipital; for medullary tractotomy

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2019
2019
MRgFUS Pallidothalamic Tractotomy for Chronic Therapy-Resistant Parkinson's Disease in 51 Consecutive Patients: Single Center Experience
Background: There is a long history, beginning in the 1940s, of ablative neurosurgery on the pallidal efferent fibers to treat… Expand
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2019
2019
Pallidothalamic Tractotomy for Parkinson Disease with 1-Year Follow-Up: A Case Report.
BACKGROUND The pallidothalamic tract connects the globus pallidus internus and the ventrolateral portion of the thalamus, and… Expand
2019
2019
Radiological and Thermal Dose Correlations in Pallidothalamic Tractotomy With MRgFUS
Background: MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) offers the possibility of safe and accurate lesioning inside the brain. Until… Expand
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2018
2018
Safety and accuracy of incisionless transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound functional neurosurgery: single-center experience with 253 targets in 180 treatments.
OBJECTIVESince the first clinical application of the incisionless magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS… Expand
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2016
2016
Future of Neurosurgery
Stereotactic ablative procedures, including anterior capsulotomy, cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, and limbic leucotomy, have… Expand
2015
2015
Effects of Cerebellothalamic Tractotomy on Cognitive and Emotional Functioning in Essential Tremor: A Preliminary Study in 5 Essential Tremor Patients
Background: Subthalamic stereotactic interventions have recently caught renewed interest as a treatment for essential tremor (ET… Expand
Review
2008
Review
2008
Functional neurosurgery in the treatment of severe obsessive compulsive disorder and major depression: overview of disease circuits and therapeutic targeting for the clinician.
Over the past 20 years, there has been a concerted effort to expand our understanding of the neural circuitry involved in the… Expand
Review
2002
Review
2002
Review of long-term results of stereotactic psychosurgery.
Stereotactic psychosurgery is an effective method for treating some medically intractable psychiatric illnesses. However, it is… Expand
2000
2000
Surgery for psychiatric disorders.
The modern therapeutic approach to most psychiatric diseases involves a combination of well-supervised psychotherapy… Expand
1970
1970
Stereotaxic amygdalotomy and basofrontal tractotomy in psychotics with aggressive behaviour
Twelve patients with personality disorders or chronic schizophrenia in whom aggressive-destructive behaviour was a prominent… Expand
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