Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorder. Psychosurgery has always been a...

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

and in the subsequent decades psychosurgery was attempted only intermittently. On November 12, 1935, a new psychosurgery procedure was performed in Portugal...

Psychosurgery is a surgical operation that destroys brain tissue in order to alleviate the symptoms of mental disorder. The lesions are usually, but not...

prolific practitioners of psychosurgery, specifically the lobotomy. Watts and Freeman wrote two books on lobotomies: Psychosurgery, Intelligence, Emotion...

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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a laboratory to continue his research. In 1888, he pioneered modern psychosurgery when he excised various brain regions from six psychiatric patients...

and historical procedures like the lobotomy: 28  and other forms of psychosurgery or insulin shock therapy, and the history of racism within the profession...

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...

University of Michigan. He is a noted authority on brain stimulation, psychosurgery and the history of psychiatry. Valenstein was born in New York City...

interventions including psychosurgery. In 1888, Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt performed the first medically sanctioned psychosurgery in which the cerebral...

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to Gage played a role in the later development of various forms of psychosurgery‍—‌particularly lobotomy‍—‌or even that Gage's accident constituted "the...

0001. ISBN 9780199687817. Berrios GE (March 1997). "The origins of psychosurgery: Shaw, Burckhardt and Moniz". History of Psychiatry. 8 (29 pt 1): 61–81...

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

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induce seizures was in use as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) by 1938. Psychosurgery, including the lobotomy and frontal lobotomy – carried out from the...

invented by the Italian neurologist Ugo Cerletti in 1938. The use of psychosurgery was narrowed to a very small number of people for specific indications...

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surgical procedures such as deep brain stimulation or, in extreme cases, psychosurgery. Psychotherapies derived from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) models...

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to predict treatment response. Neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, psychosurgery, anesthesiology and pain medicine, neuropathology, neuroradiology, ophthalmology...

persuade his patients to accept Christianity. One scholar has described psychosurgery as "Neurosurgical Exorcisms", with trepanation having been widely used...

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

performing leucotomies (also known as lobotomy) and other forms of psychosurgery. Invented by Canadian neurosurgeon Dr. Kenneth G. McKenzie in the 1940s...

"Informed consent for special procedures: electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery". Current Opinion in Anesthesiology. 26 (2): 182–85. doi:10.1097/ACO...