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Egas Moniz: 90 years (1927-2017) from cerebral angiography [PDF]
, 2017 In June 2017 we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the pioneer discovery of cerebral angiography, the seminal imaging technique used for visualizing cerebral blood vessels and vascular alterations as well as other intracranial disorders.
Alessandro Frati +10 more
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On deciding to have a lobotomy:either lobotomies were justified or decisions under risk should not always seek to maximise expected utility [PDF]
, 2014 In the 1940s and 1950s thousands of lobotomies were performed on people with mental disorders. These operations were known to be dangerous, but thought to offer great hope. Nowadays, the lobotomies of the 1940s and 1950s are widely condemned.
A Deutsch +59 more
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Archivos uruguayos de medicina, cirugia y especialidades, 2004 Presentado en sesión de 30 de marzo de ...
Arana Iñiguez, R, Galeano Muñoz, J
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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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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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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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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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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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Stereotactic Neurosurgical Treatment of Addiction: Minimizing the Chances of Another 'Great and Desperate Cure' [PDF]
, 2006 Over the past 4 years Russian and Chinese surgeons have used neurosurgical procedures to treat heroin addiction. 305 were reportedly operated on in Russia and over 500 in China before the procedure was stopped by the Russian and Chinese governments in ...
Hall, Wayne D.
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European Psychiatry, 2023 Background The European Psychiatric Association (EPA) is an organization that speaks on behalf of its individual members and members of National Psychiatric Associations (NPAs).
Jerzy Samochowiec +15 more
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