1) Amygdalotomy 2) Callosectomy 3) Callosotomy 4) Leucotomy 5) Leukotomy 6) Lobotomy
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1) Brain surgery
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Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorder. Psychosurgery has always been a controversial medical field. The modern history of psychosurgery begins in the 1880s under the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt. The first significant foray into psychosurgery in the twentieth ...
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the treatment of psychosis or other mental disorders by means of brain surgery.[2 related articles]
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Treatment of chronic, severe and intractable psychiatric disorders by surgical removal or interruption of certain areas or pathways in the brain, especially in the prefrontal lobes. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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(si″ko-sur´jәr-e) brain surgery done to treat psychiatric disorders. adj., psychosur´gical., adj.
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(Learning Modules / Psychology / Measuring the unmeasurable) A somatic method of treating psychological disorders where sections of the brain are removed or lesions are made so that areas of the brain become separate.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: sī′kō-ser′jĕr-ē Definitions: 1. The treatment of mental disorders by operation on the brain, lobotomy.
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n] - brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
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psychosurgery 1. The treatment of mental disorders with surgery of the brain; for example, lobotomy.2. Brain surgery for the purpose of modifying emotions or behavior, especially in the treatment of psychosis, in the absence of demonstrable organic brain disease, most commonly by means of interrupting the nerve fibers connecting the frontal and lim...
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noun brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
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Operation to relieve severe mental illness. See leucotomy
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A surgical procedure performed on brain tissue to alleviate a psychological disorder.
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treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery. Cf.
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