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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
Brain LobectomyEducational aspectsGyrectomyLeukotomy

Narrower (2)

Thalamotomylobectomy

Papers overview

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Review
2010
Review
2010
Deep brain stimulation: from neurology to psychiatry?
Review
2006
Review
2006
Deep Brain Stimulation for Neurologic and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Review
2001
Review
2001
Psychosurgery: a historical overview.
Neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorders has a long and controversial history. From the Stone Age use of trephining to… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Suicide as an outcome for mental disorders
Background Mental disorders have a strong association with suicide. This meta-analysis, or statistical overview, of the… 
Review
1994
Review
1994
Psychosurgery: stereotactic subcaudate tractomy. An indispensable treatment.
BACKGROUND Stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy (SST) is the only type of psychosurgery performed at the Geoffrey Knight Unit… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Textbook of pain
Part 1 Basic aspects: peripheral - peripheral neural mechnaisms of nociception, the course and termination of primary afferent… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Obsessive compulsive disorder.
  • M. Jenike
  • Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • 1983
  • Corpus ID: 1131567
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
The involvement of orbitofrontal cerebrum in cognitive tasks
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Bilateral infarction of the anterior cingulate gyri and of the fornices Report of a case
Review
1980
Review
1980
Regional cerebral blood flow measurements by 133Xe-inhalation: Methodology and applications in neuropsychology and psychiatry
  • J. Risberg
  • Brain and Language
  • 1980
  • Corpus ID: 9574301
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