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Exploring the Landscape of Psychosurgery in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review Protocol [PDF]
European PsychiatryIntroduction Psychosurgical procedures gained an infamous reputation during the 20th century with the implementation of the lobotomy as treatment for several psychiatric illnesses.
S. Murthy, J. Wellington, R. Suvarna
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Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2015 Edgar Durand,1 Alexander G Weil,2 Marc Lévêque1,3 1Espace éthique de l’Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris et Département de recherche en éthique, South Paris University, Paris, France; 2Pediatric ...
Dur, E, Weil AG, Lévêque M
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Ethical issues in psychosurgery [PDF]
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017 Psychosurgery, a discipline that emerged from psychiatry and neurosurgery, is a unique form of treatment, even nowadays counted as a last resort for psychiatric patients.
Maria Golebiowska +3 more
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The Initial Epoch of Psychosurgery in India: A Retrospective Data Review from Mysore Government Mental Hospital [PDF]
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2023 Background: In the early 20 th century, psychosurgery had gained worldwide popularity for treating mentally ill persons, especially in western countries.
Sarah Ghani +5 more
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Philosophical impact of psychosurgery: a narrative of the history of psychosurgery [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction To fully comprehend and appreciate the impact of psychosurgery on treatment-resistant depression it is pertinent to review its initial development and subsequent history.
J. Wellington +7 more
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Innovative perspectives in limbic surgery using deep brain stimulation [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 Limbic surgery is one of the most attractive and retaken fields of functional neurosurgery in the last two decades. Psychiatric surgery emerged from the incipient work of Moniz and Lima lesioning the prefrontal cortex in agitated patients.
José Damián Carrillo-Ruiz +10 more
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Biomarkers: The Key to Enhancing Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment for Psychiatric Conditions [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is currently a promising technique for psychiatric patients with severe and treatment-resistant symptoms. However, the results to date have been quite heterogeneous, and the indications for psychosurgery with DBS ...
Guillermo J. Bazarra Castro +7 more
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1973 Summary It seems fundamentally improbable that different mental symptoms and personality disorders should be relieved by one single form of operation on the brain. The present paper describes five operations which can be performed with benefit to different types of psychiatric abnormality; namely, unilateral temporal lobectomy ...
Eric Turner
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Primum non nocere: psychosurgery in a case of severe anorexia nervosa. A case report [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Bilateral cingulotomy and anterior capsulotomy are two neurosurgical procedures which are reserved as a last resort for cases of severe OCD in Spain; these procedures are not approved in cases of AN.
A. Cerame +3 more
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The Network Systems Underlying Emotions: The Rational Foundation of Deep Brain Stimulation Psychosurgery [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 Science and philosophy have tried to understand the origin of emotions for centuries. However, only in the last 150 years have we started to try to understand them in a neuroscientific scope.
Lorena Vega-Zelaya, Jesús Pastor
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