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psychosurgery::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | brain surgery |
| Has types | callosectomy, callosotomy, frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, amygdalotomy, prefrontal lobotomy |
Examples of psychosurgery
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Other forms of psychosurgery, although used on a much smaller scale, survived.
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However, psychosurgery as understood today was not commonly practiced until the 1930s.
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More commonly, Gottlieb Burckhardt is regarded as the founder of modern psychosurgery.
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Psychosurgery is used in very extreme cases, when other treatment techniques do not work.
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Psychosurgery is a collaboration between psychiatrists and neurosurgeons.
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Motor control is located at the rear of the frontal lobe, and is usually unaffected by psychosurgery.
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In Mexico psychosurgery is used in the treatment of anorexia.
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Venezuela has three centres performing psychosurgery.
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There was the psychosurgery, which had become a disaster.
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- Brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
- Brain surgery used as a way of treating mental disorders.
- Surgical procedures conducted on brain tissue to alleviate the symptoms of severe psychological disorder.
- Involves destroying a very small amount of brain tissue in order to alleviate psychological disorders. This treatment is used as a last resort in treating problems involving strong emotional reactions. ...
- Any surgical technique in which neural pathways in the brain are cut in order to change behaviour. See lobotomy.
- Any surgical procedure that destroys selected areas of the brain believed to be involved in emotional disorders or disturbed behavior.
