Psychosurgery for schizophrenia: history and perspectives
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2013 Matheus Schmidt Soares, Wellingson Silva Paiva, Eda Z Guertzenstein, Robson Luis Amorim, Luca Silveira Bernardo, Jose Francisco Pereira, Erich Talamoni Fonoff, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital das Clínicas, University of
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THE ICE PICK OF OBLIVION: MONIZ, FREEMAN AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOSURGERY; pp. 129–152 [PDF]
Trames, 2009 Between 1935 and 1955, psychosurgery was regarded as standard treatment for schizophrenics. Egas Moniz and Walter Freeman had revived it, after earlier experiments led to questionable results.
Marshall J. Getz
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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 ...
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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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Psychiatric Bulletin, 1990 Drilling holes in someone's skull and destroying parts of the brain is the kind of scenario dreamt up by anti-psychiatrists. That it can happen in practice - and once happened on a fairly large scale - remains a matter of sensitivity for the public image of psychiatry, notwithstanding that there are still cogent reasons to retain leucotomy in its ...
Hugh James Freeman
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Investigating psychosurgery [PDF]
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1990 P. K. Bridges
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Modern solutions, traditional views: psychiatric patients’ reactions to psychosurgery and neurosurgical treatment in a developing context [PDF]
Egyptian Journal of NeurosurgeryBackground Psychosurgery is defined as “any surgical procedure that attempts to alter, through manipulation of neural tissue, a thought or thought process associated with a psychiatric disorder categorized in the DSM-IV, where no known structural lesion ...
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Histopathological findings in the brain decades after cingulotomy: An autopsy case. [PDF]
PCN RepPsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports, Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2025.
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Contemporary psychosurgery: Deep brain stimulation for the treatment of refractory depression
Zdravniški Vestnik, 2010 The aim of this review is to present the use of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of resistant depression and to summarize the available clinical data stemming from this area.
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Happy Birthday "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest": A Momentous Tale in the Quest for an Effective and Ethical Approach to Psychosurgery. [PDF]
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