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- Bilateral cingulotomy is a form of psychosurgery, introduced in 1948 as an alternative to lobotomy. Today, it is mainly used in the treatment of depression...
- of psychosurgery in current or recent use are anterior capsulotomy, cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy and limbic leucotomy. Lesions are made by radiation...
- extensive cuts or more specific targets (for example, rostral leucotomy and cingulotomy) in an attempt to reduce the damage done by the surgery. During the 1950s...
- accelerate labor. AndrotomyDissection of the human body . Bilateral cingulotomy – Psychosurgery, treatment for depression and addiction . Bronchotomy...
- unpleasantness. This usually results from injury to the brain, lobotomy, cingulotomy or morphine analgesia. Preexisting lesions of the insula may abolish...
- in appraisal of pain and reinforcement of behavior that reduces it. Cingulotomy, the surgical severing of the anterior cingulum, is a form of psychosurgery...
- tried to change for his wife, and underwent secret surgery (bilateral cingulotomy). While House delivers his diagnosis, Elizabeth overhears the news and...
- lesions of the anterior limbs of the internal capsule) or the bilateral cingulotomy (involving lesions of the anterior cingulate gyri) and might be used...
- last used in the 1970s, but other forms of psychosurgery, such as the cingulotomy and capsulotomy have survived. Trepanning, the practice of drilling holes...
- whose character is loosely based on Freeman. Psychiatry portal Bilateral cingulotomydestruction of a part of the brain Bioethics and medical ethics Frontal...