Psychosurgery (Lobotomy)

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411 relevant articles (8 outcomes, 28 trials/studies) found for this Therapy

Description: 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.

Also Known As:

Lobotomy; Leukotomy; Lobotomies; Leucotomy; Gyrectomies; Leucotomies; Leukotomies; Psychosurgeries; Topectomies; Gyrectomy; Topectomy

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Therapy Context: Research Results

Operative Surgical Procedures: 4

Neurosurgical Procedures: 580

Psychosurgery: 411

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Psychiatric Somatic Therapies

Psychosurgery: 411

Experts

1.	Chen, Chun-Chung: 1 article (02/2008)
2.	Cho, Der-Yang: 1 article (02/2008)
3.	Lee, Wen-Yuan: 1 article (02/2008)
4.	Anderson, Shawanda W: 1 article (01/2006)
5.	Booker, Marvin B: 1 article (01/2006)
6.	Black, Deborah: 1 article (08/2004)
7.	Lecours, André-Roch: 1 article (08/2004)
8.	Stip, Emmanuel: 1 article (08/2004)
9.	Mancini-Marïe, Adham: 1 article (08/2004)
10.	Cosset, Marie-Eve: 1 article (08/2004)

Related Diseases

1.	Schizophrenia (Dementia Praecox) 03/01/1953 - "Psychopathological findings in a case of schizophrenia with clinical remission after Fiamberti leukotomy.]" 08/01/2004 - "OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the long-term effects of bilateral prefrontal leukotomy on lexical abilities in schizophrenia subjects" 02/01/1996 - "The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of schizophrenia and frontal leukotomy on the control and perceptual-motor coordination of reaching and grasping movements" 01/01/1993 - "This study examined 24 elderly schizophrenia patients who had experienced a bifrontal leukotomy and 48 subjects who were similar to the leukotomized patients in age, gender, chronicity, and overall severity of cognitive impairment" 01/13/1962 - "Histopathological and histochemical studies in schizophrenia: post-mortem, biopsy, and topectomy material." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
2.	Pain (Aches) 03/01/2006 - "Following prefrontal lobotomy, the emotional impact of chronic pain is dramatically reduced, while affective responses to acute pain are paradoxically increased" 01/01/1953 - "Psychosurgery in inoperable pain; studies on 57 cases.]" 03/01/1952 - "Critical study on the treatment of pain with prefrontal lobotomy.]" 01/01/2007 - "In the patients records the most common indications for psychosurgery were "unruly" and "aggressive" behaviour, but other factors such as the patient's lengths of stay in the hospital, patients racked with pain, and lack of response to other somatic treatments could also prompt psychiatrists to employ lobotomy." 03/01/2006 - "Pain asymbolia and prefrontal lobotomy, two distinct neurological pictures, help to better understand the cerebral basis of the emotional dimension of pain" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
3.	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive) 04/01/1992 - "Except for rarely performed psychosurgery, obsessive compulsive disorder seldom improved with reversible treatments before 1966" 01/01/2001 - "The object of this study is to assess the changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) following stereotactic limbic leukotomy in patients with medically intractable Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)" 06/01/1978 - "EEG studies on patients with chronic obsessive-compulsive neurosis before and after psychosurgery (stereotaxic bilateral anterior capsulotomy)." 01/01/2006 - "Cognitive behavioral therapy versus psychosurgery for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder." 04/01/2003 - "Psychosurgery for obsessive-compulsive disorder -- concerns remain." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
4.	Tourette Syndrome (Tourette's Syndrome) 01/01/2004 - "This report describes the use of cingulotomy and subsequent limbic leucotomy in an adolescent boy with Tourette's Disorder for SIB" 01/01/2004 - "Psychosurgery for self-injurious behavior in Tourette's disorder." 05/01/1995 - "Longitudinal evolution of prefrontal leucotomy in Tourette's syndrome." 09/01/1993 - "The metabolic effects of limbic leucotomy in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome." 08/01/1990 - "The treatment of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome by limbic leucotomy." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
5.	Delirium 07/01/1950 - "Case of paranoid delirium of persecution cured by topectomy; importance of the anatomo-pathological study and of the evolution of the Rorschach test.]" 04/01/2000 - "An induced delirium is a feature of modern electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and was a feature of insulin coma therapy and psychosurgery" 01/01/1953 - "First impression on the action of lobotomy in delirium.]" 04/01/1952 - "Results of lobotomy in chronic delirium.]" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
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Related Therapies and Procedures

1.	Psychosurgery (Lobotomy)
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