Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder or functional neurosurgery, is surgery in which brain tissue is destroyed with the aim of...

modern history of psychosurgery begins in the 1880s under the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt. The first significant foray into psychosurgery in the...

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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brief history of lobotomy"". aaas.org. Miguel A, Faria (5 April 2013). ""Violence, mental illness, and the brain – A brief history of psychosurgery: Part...

MA (2013). "Violence, mental illness, and the brain - A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 3 - From deep brain stimulation to amygdalotomy for violent...

psychosurgery was attempted only intermittently. On November 12, 1935, a new psychosurgery procedure was performed in Portugal under the direction of...

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cingulotomy is a form of psychosurgery, introduced in 1948 as an alternative to lobotomy. Today, it is mainly used in the treatment of depression and obsessive-compulsive...

professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan. He is a noted authority on brain stimulation, psychosurgery and the history of psychiatry...

psychiatry History of psychiatric institutions History of psychosurgery History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom Lobotomy – consists of cutting or...

Amygdalotomy is a form of psychosurgery which involves the surgical removal or destruction of the amygdala, or parts of the amygdala. It is usually a last-resort...

MA (2013). "Violence, mental illness, and the brain - A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 3 - From deep brain stimulation to amygdalotomy for violent...

(2013-04-05). "Violence, mental illness, and the brain – A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 1 – From trephination to lobotomy". Surgical Neurology International...

challenge. A recent writer on the history of psychosurgery as it relates to neuroethics concludes: "The lessons of history sagaciously reveal wherever the...

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the Brain – A Brief History of Psychosurgery." In 2015, a raging debate began between Faria and Ezekiel Emanuel on the issue of bioethics and longevity...

Miguel A. "Violence, mental illness, and the brain – A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 2 – From the limbic system and cingulotomy to deep brain stimulation"...

medical ethics. Mashour, G.A.; Walker, E.E.; Martuza, R.L. (2005). "Psychosurgery: past, present and future". Brain Research Reviews. 48 (3): 409–18....

The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand...

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) by 1938. Frontal lobotomies, a form of psychosurgery, were carried out from the 1930s until the 1970s in the United States...

Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery, having developed the surgical procedure...

homosexual man to heterosexuality using DBS. Heath also experimented with psychosurgery, the drug bulbocapnine to induce stupor, and LSD, using African-American...

(June 1, 2013). "Violence, mental illness, and the brain – A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 2 - From the limbic system and cingulotomy to deep brain...

Lichterman BL. On the history of psychosurgery in Russia. Acta Neurochir 125(1-4), 1-4 (1993) Lichterman BL. Roots and routes of Russian neurosurgery (from...

Following the death of his wife in 1992, Wylie relocated to Brighton to live with his eldest daughter. History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom...

the history of psychosurgery in Russia". Acta Neurochirurgica. 125 (1–4): 1–4. doi:10.1007/BF01401819. PMID 8122532. S2CID 189764136. USSR Ministry of Health...

When Kennedy was 23 years old, doctors told her father that a form of psychosurgery known as a lobotomy would help calm her mood swings and stop her occasional...

James L. (2001). "Dr. Gottlieb Burckhardt – The Pioneer of Psychosurgery". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 10 (1): 79–92. doi:10.1076/jhin.10...

those from Mongolia. The stand-alone term "idiot" itself has a similar history of meaning and connotation change. While the term "idiot" is, in the present...