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Psychosurgery
Known as:
mental surgery
, surgery mental
, Psychosurgeries
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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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Brain
Neurosurgical Procedures
Psychiatric Somatic Therapies
brain surgery
Brain Lobectomy
Educational aspects
Gyrectomy
Leukotomy
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Narrower (2)
Thalamotomy
lobectomy
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Review
2015
Review
2015
A personal 35 year perspective on Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: assessment, investigations, and management.
M. Robertson
Lancet psychiatry
2015
Corpus ID: 25407041
Review
2010
Review
2010
Therapeutic Options for Treatment-Resistant Depression
R. Shelton
,
O. Osuntokun
,
A. Heinloth
,
S. Corya
CNS Drugs
2010
Corpus ID: 32936223
Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) presents major challenges for both patients and clinicians. There is no universally accepted…
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Review
2009
Review
2009
From psychosurgery to neuromodulation: Deep brain stimulation for intractable Tourette syndrome
I. Neuner
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K. Podoll
,
H. Janouschek
,
T. Michel
,
A. Sheldrick
,
F. Schneider
World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
2009
Corpus ID: 29585519
Tourette syndrome is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by motor and vocal tics. It is often associated with depression…
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Review
2008
Review
2008
Potential surgical targets for deep brain stimulation in treatment-resistant depression.
J. Hauptman
,
A. DeSalles
,
R. Espinoza
,
M. Sedrak
,
Warren Ishida
Neurosurgical Focus
2008
Corpus ID: 24614944
OBJECT The goal of this study was to evaluate the definition of treatment-resistant depression (TRD), review the literature…
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2003
2003
Psychiatric neurosurgery: a historical perspective.
B. Kopell
,
A. Rezai
Neurosurgery clinics of North America
2003
Corpus ID: 30302600
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Treatment of obsessive‐compulsive disorder by psychosurgery
P. Hay
,
P. Sachdev
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+4 authors
J. Matheson
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
1993
Corpus ID: 44502829
We report a longitudinal study of 26 patients with medically intractable obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) who were treated…
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1980
1980
The Psychosurgery debate : scientific, legal, and ethical perspectives
E. Valenstein
1980
Corpus ID: 141532840
A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolve the problem? From what sources…
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1978
1978
The Woman Patient
M. Notman
,
C. Nadelson
Women in Context
1978
Corpus ID: 5938994
THE DocToR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP Women have generally received their health care in settings that have been organized in a…
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Review
1977
Review
1977
Psychosurgery: Yesterday and Today
P. Bridges
,
J. Bartlett
British Journal of Psychiatry
1977
Corpus ID: 4995824
Psychosurgery is a controversial subject, but probably more so than it need be when the essential issues are clarified. Much of…
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Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Brain control : a critical examination of brain stimulation and psychosurgery
E. Valenstein
1974
Corpus ID: 68390631
Brain control : a critical examination of brain stimulation and psychosurgery , Brain control : a critical examination of brain…
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