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Psychosurgery

Known as: mental surgery, surgery mental, Psychosurgeries 
Treatment of chronic, severe and intractable psychiatric disorders by surgical removal or interruption of certain areas or pathways in the brain… 
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BrainNeurosurgical ProceduresPsychiatric Somatic Therapiesbrain surgery
Brain LobectomyEducational aspectsGyrectomyLeukotomy

Narrower (2)

Thalamotomylobectomy

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Review
2012
Review
2012
Neuroscience and the Tr eatment of Mentally Ill Criminal Offenders: Some Ethical Issues
Neuroscience has recently come to play an important role in criminal settings, infl uencing all stages of criminal procedures… 
1994
1994
Autonomy, Informed Consent, and Psychosurgery
In their discussion of the issues of informed consent and physicians’ responsibility in the case of psychosurgery for severe and… 
1982
1982
Psychosurgery: A Scientific Analysis
1 Historical introduction.- 2 Operative techniques.- 3 Quantitative evaluation of operative procedures.- 4 Patient populations… 
1978
1978
Computed Tomography After Psychosurgery
The computed tomography scans of patients who had frontal leukotomy show bilateral cysts in the frontal lobes that have… 
1977
1977
Four taboos that may limit the success of psychotherapy.
Painful though it may be, it must be accepted as fact that psychotherapy has a lower success rate than it should. Whatever… 
1975
1975
Psychosurgery, conditioning, and the prisoner's right to refuse "rehabilitation"
The past several decades have witnessed major advances in the fields of psychology and neurology, specifically in the… 
1958
1958
Psychosurgery; present indications and future prospects.
Although the advent and widespread use of ataractic drugs has more or less eclipsed lobotomy as a method of dealing with severe… 
1958
1958
Clinical correlates of electroshock therapy.
Advances in psychiatry have paralleled rather closely the advances achieved in other branches of medicine. The initial… 
1948
1948
Prefrontal lobectomy (excision of the anterior areas of the cerebrum), a new form of psychosurgery.
A new type of psychosurgical technique, namely, prefrontal lobectomy, is described. The advantages of this procedure over… 
Review
1947
Review
1947
Psychosurgery during 1936-1946.
PSYCHOSURGERY was introduced into this country ten years ago, amid rumblings of disbelief and thunderings of disapproval. It…