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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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Diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders – a review of the scientific literature
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022 Introduction: Unambiguous definition of mental disorders is difficult, mainly because of the heterogeneity of this group of diseases and the clarity of the line between pathology and normal.
Piotr Pawłowski +9 more
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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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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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The neurosurgical treatment of depression: can it supersede psychopharmacology?
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2021 Psychosurgery has a controversial history in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, but in recent years there has been mounting evidence for the potential of chronic electrical deep brain stimulation (DBS) of several neuroanatomical targets in managing
Cameron A Elliott +4 more
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Psychosurgery for Obesity [PDF]
Obesity Facts, 2009 Because of the current widespread performance of antiobesity surgery, more common than coronary bypass in the USA, this editorial is compulsory reading for all people treating obese patients. The explosive increase in antiobesity surgery over the last decade [1] emanated from: i) perfection of safer, less traumatic laparoscopic surgical approaches ...
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 The treatment of psychiatric patients presents significant challenges to the clinical community, and a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management is essential to facilitate optimal care.
Michael D. Staudt +5 more
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Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2020 . The case of Phineas Gage is an integral part of medical folklore. His accident still causes astonishment and curiosity and can be considered as the case that most influenced and contributed to the nineteenth century's neuropsychiatric discussion on the
Ricardo Vieira Teles Filho
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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 ...
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A brief history of psychosurgery
Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2019 Diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders has changed significantly over years. Our understanding of aetiology of psychiatric disorders has evolved from demonic possession to specific neurobiological mechanism.
K Priya Nayak, A T Safeekh
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