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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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Status ontyczny osoby z perspektywy neuronauk (The ontological status of a person from the perspective of neurosciences) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2010 Contemporary inquiry of the ontological status of a person is a matter of both philosophy and neurosciences. This article examines the question of person ontology from two interconnected perspectives.
Józef Bremer
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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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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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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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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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Journal on European History of Law, 2019 Nowadays, law is led to a widespread connection with neuroscience. Neurolaw as an interdisciplinary field of study has emerged in the post-modern era of law and neuroscience.
Arian Petoft, Mahmoud Abbasi
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Kilpauk Mental Hospital: The Bethlem of South Asia – A recall of its history prior to 1970
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2018 Period of Custodial Care Only: The magnificent “Institute of Mental Health” has its history almost from 1795 when the East India company appointed Surgeon Valentine Conolly to be in charge of a “House for accommodating persons of unsound mind.” After a ...
O. Somasundaram, Ponnudurai Ratnaraj
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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 ...
Mohammed Al-Shereiqi +5 more
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