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

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

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

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in the United Kingdom in 1939 and, although its use has been declining for several decades, it was still given to about 11,000 people a year in the early...

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...

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

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