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Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2022 Bacterial meningitis remains a public health problem. One of the complications of this group of diseases is cerebral ischemia, an important indicator of severity and an independent predictor of poor prognosis.
Pietro Alessandro Vaccario +2 more
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Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 101-107, March 2021., 2021 Aim Anterior capsulotomy (AC) is one of the last therapeutic options for obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) refractory to conservative treatments. Several forms of cognitive dysfunction have been identified after assessment of neuropsychological outcomes in OCD patients; however, few studies focused on cognitive changes in OCD patients after surgery ...
Lenka Krámská +4 more
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Invasive treatment of selected psychiatric diseases
Quality in Sport, 2023 Mental disorders are a significant clinical problem due to the frequent ineffectiveness of their treatment. This is due to the not fully understood etiopathogenesis of these diseases.
Bartosz Basiaga +9 more
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European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 89-113, January 2021., 2021 The review introduces the reader to Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of the medial forebrain bundle (MFB), a therapeutic option currently being tested in clinical trials in major depressive patients resistant to conventional treatment strategies.
Máté D. Döbrössy +5 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 Self-injurious behavior (SIB) is associated with diverse psychiatric conditions. Sometimes (e.g., in patients with autism spectrum disorder or acquired brain injuries), SIB is the most dominant symptom, severely restricting the psychosocial functioning ...
Petra Heiden +11 more
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Neurosurgery for Refractory Schizophrenia: A Systematic Literature Review
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2020 Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling psychiatric disease that can be refractory to conventional treatment. The present study aims to gather information about the circuitry related to schizophrenia to describe possible surgical targets, and to ...
Bruna Veronese Almeida +2 more
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Neurophysiological Characterization of Posteromedial Hypothalamus in Anaesthetized Patients
Brain Sciences, 2021 Deep brain stimulation (DBS) requires a precise localization, which is especially difficult at the hypothalamus, because it is usually performed in anesthetized patients.
Jesús Pastor +2 more
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Improvements in obsessive–compulsive disorder and schizophrenia after left putaminal hemorrhage
, 2021 Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Volume 75, Issue 11, Page 354-355, November 2021.
Kohei Echizen +3 more
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Family influence and psychiatric care: physical treatments in Devon mental hospitals, c. 1920 to the 1970s [PDF]
, 2013 ‘What is it that appears to make the mentally ill so vulnerable to therapeutic experimentation?’1 One commentator wrote in the 1990s, regarding mental hospitals as repressive, coercive and custodial institutions where medical staff subjected patients to ...
Baur, Nicole
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Psychosurgery: A History from Prefrontal Lobotomy to Deep Brain Stimulation [PDF]
, 2020 Neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorders features a long and controversial history. This article explores a ‘spectrum of psychosurgery,’ describing how old-fashioned and controversial prefrontal lobotomy gradually evolved into modern day ...
Baldwin, Ashley +3 more
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