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The role of bioethics in the neurosurgical treatment of psychiatric disorders
Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2015 Psychiatric neurosurgery or psychosurgery remains as an alternative for treatment of psychiatric disorders. However, its historical antecedents, the vulnerable specific condition of psychiatric patients, the high cost of instrumentation and the ethic ...
F. Jiménez-Ponce +2 more
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Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2011 Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is optimistically portrayed in contemporary media. This already happened with psychosurgery during the first half of the 20th century.
Frédéric eGilbert +2 more
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Ethical issues in deep brain stimulation
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2011 Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is currently used to treat neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease (PD), essential tremor and dystonia, and is explored as an experimental treatment for psychiatric disorders like Major Depression (MD) and Obsessive ...
Maartje eSchermer
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Epilepsy and Behavior Case Reports, 2017 In Scandinavia, at least 11.500 people were lobotomized in the period 1939–1983. Beside grave personality changes, the surgery caused epilepsy in 10–35% of the patients. Moreover, many died due to perioperative bleedings, convulsive status epilepticus or
Mia Tuft, Karl O. Nakken
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Mechanisms of DBS: from informational lesions to circuit modulation and implications in OCD
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceIn 2009, treatment-resistant obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) was approved as an indication for deep brain stimulation (DBS) under a Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE).
Julia M. Shea +3 more
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An Interview with Dr. Daniel Callahan, Bioethics Pioneer
Voices in Bioethics, 2016 Daniel Callahan, PhD, is an internationally recognized thought leader in bioethics. A philosopher by training, Callahan co-founded the Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics research institution, in 1969, and has contributed prolifically to the field ...
Voices in Bioethics
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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.
Matej Markota +2 more
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Deep brain stimulation in neurological diseases and other pathologies
Neurology Perspectives, 2022 Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure used to treat various neurological pathologies, being its greatest use in movement disorders. The FDA first approved deep brain stimulation in 1997 to treat essential tremor, in 2002 it was approved ...
G. Marín +9 more
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