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Psychosurgery, also
called neurosurgery for
mental disorder (NMD), is the
neurosurgical treatment of
mental disorders.
Psychosurgery has
always been a...
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medical ethics Frontal lobe
disorder Frontal lobe
injury Psychosurgery History of
psychosurgery in the
United Kingdom Walter Rudolf Hess, who was the joint...
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Psychosurgery, also
called neurosurgery for
mental disorder or
functional neurosurgery, is
surgery in
which brain tissue is destro**** with the aim of...
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subsequent decades psychosurgery was
attempted only intermittently. On
November 12, 1935, a new
psychosurgery procedure was
performed in Portugal...
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Psychosurgery is a
surgical operation that
destroys brain tissue in
order to
alleviate the
symptoms of
mental disorder. The
lesions are usually, but not...
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cerebral angiography. He is
regarded as one of the
founders of
modern psychosurgery,
having developed the
surgical procedure leucotomy—better
known today...
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prolific practitioners of
psychosurgery,
specifically the lobotomy.
Watts and
Freeman wrote two
books on lobotomies:
Psychosurgery, Intelligence, Emotion...
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frontal lobe is the
largest of the four
major lobes of the
brain in mammals, and is
located at the
front of each
cerebral hemisphere (in
front of the...
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Courts and
Tribunals Court order Mental...
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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...
