psychosurgery

(noun)

Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness.

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Examples of psychosurgery in the following topics:

  • Psychosurgery

    • There are many types of psychosurgery.
    • In spite of Moniz's Nobel Prize in 1949, the use of psychosurgery declined during the 1950s.
    • Psychosurgery has a low rate of efficacy relative to the risks of the procedures.
    • Psychosurgery has always been highly controversial.
    • Discuss the goals, techniques, and efficacy of various types of psychosurgery

  • Introduction to Biomedical Therapies

    • Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental illness.
    • Psychosurgery has always been a controversial medical field.
    • Some countries have abandoned psychosurgery altogether; in others (the US and the UK, for example) it is only used in a few centers on small numbers of people with depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
    • Psychosurgery is a collaboration between psychiatrists and neurosurgeons.
    • The most common types of psychosurgery in current or recent use are capsulotomy, cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, and limbic leucotomy.

  • Limbic System

    • To cure severe emotional disorders, this connection was sometimes surgically severed, a procedure of psychosurgery, called a prefrontal lobotomy.