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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… 
National Institutes of Health

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BrainNeurosurgical ProceduresPsychiatric Somatic Therapiesbrain surgery
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Papers overview

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2003
2003
Psychosurgery for obsessive–compulsive disorder – concerns remain
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) sometimes progresses to states that belong to the most crippling in psychiatry. Unlike… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Sixty Years of Psychosurgery: Its Present Status and its Future
After its introduction 60 years ago, psychosurgery witnessed a remarkable rise followed by a decline. In the 1990s, it is a… 
1995
1995
Neuropsychological Outcome from Psychosurgery for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Seventeen obsessive-compulsive disorder patients treated with psychosurgery were administered a comprehensive neuropsychological… 
1982
1982
Psychosurgery: A Scientific Analysis
1 Historical introduction.- 2 Operative techniques.- 3 Quantitative evaluation of operative procedures.- 4 Patient populations… 
1980
1980
The Psychosurgery debate : scientific, legal, and ethical perspectives
A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolve the problem? From what sources… 
Review
1980
Review
1980
Obsessive-compulsive disorder of childhood and adolescence. A neurobiological viewpoint.
1979
1979
A CNV rebound effect.
Review
1978
Review
1978
Violence in children and adults: a neurological view.
Review
1977
Review
1977
Psychosurgery: Yesterday and Today
Psychosurgery is a controversial subject, but probably more so than it need be when the essential issues are clarified. Much of… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Consent to treatment.
A brief commentary on Treating the Troublesome: Report of a Working Party, issued in 1981 by the London-based Council for… 
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