Psychosurgery WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Psychosurgery
Psychosurgery is the medical term for any type of surgical technique used to destroy brain tissue in order to attempt to treat a psychiatric disorder. Although once widely used, psychosurgery is rarely used today, as the results have been less than ideal. Psychosurgery should only be used as a last resort for extreme, debilitating psychiatric conditions.1
Fast Facts:
- Researchers have found evidence that psychosurgery was performed as far back in history as 40,000 years ago in Neolithic times.2
- The lobotomy is probably the best known psychosurgery.2
- Today, a very small number of neurologists still employ the use of psychosurgery to treat life-threatening psychiatric conditions if all other treatment methods have failed.1
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Research Notes References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders (via Healthline): Psychosurgery
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders: Psychosurgery
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- Contributor: Susan Scroggins
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Susan Scroggins
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Surgery for Psychiatric Conditions, Psychiatric Surgery, Psychotic surgery
- Last update: Apr. 2, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
