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Bilateral cingulotomy is a form of psychosurgery,
introduced in 1948 as an
alternative to lobotomy. Today, it is
mainly used in the
treatment of depression...
- of
psychosurgery in
current or
recent use are
anterior capsulotomy,
cingulotomy,
subcaudate tractotomy and
limbic leucotomy.
Lesions are made by radiation...
- unpleasantness. This
usually results from
injury to the brain, lobotomy,
cingulotomy or
morphine analgesia.
Preexisting lesions of the
insula may abolish...
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extensive cuts or more
specific targets (for example,
rostral leucotomy and
cingulotomy) in an
attempt to
reduce the
damage done by the surgery.
During the 1950s...
- However,
deriatives of it such as
stereotactic tractotomy and
bilateral cingulotomy are
still used. Historically,
patients of
frontal lobotomy were, immediately...
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lesions of the
anterior limbs of the
internal capsule) or the
bilateral cingulotomy (involving
lesions of the
anterior cingulate gyri) and
might be used...
- in
appraisal of pain and
reinforcement of
behavior that
reduces it.
Cingulotomy, the
surgical severing of the
anterior cingulum, is a form of psychosurgery...
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tried to
change for his wife, and
underwent secret surgery (bilateral
cingulotomy).
While House delivers his diagnosis,
Elizabeth overhears the news and...
- last used in the 1970s, but
other forms of psychosurgery, such as the
cingulotomy and
capsulotomy have survived. Trepanning, the
practice of
drilling holes...
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Ventriculostomy Craniotomy · Pallidotomy · Thalamotomy · Lobotomy ·
Bilateral cingulotomy · Cordotomy ·
Rhizotomy Neurosurgery · Psychosurgery ·
Brain biopsy Peripheral...
