Definitions for Psychosurgery
ˌsaɪ koʊˈsɜr dʒə ripsy·chosur·ge·ry

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1. psychosurgerynoun

   brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems

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1. psychosurgerynoun

   Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness.

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1. psychosurgery

   Psychosurgery is a term used to define any medical intervention where surgical procedures are applied directly to the brain with the aim of treating or alleviating severe mental illnesses and disorders. This is usually the last option after all other treatments have failed. Procedures can include lobotomy, deep brain stimulation, or other neurosurgical techniques. It's important to note that these procedures are often controversial due to their invasiveness and potential risks.

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1. Psychosurgery

   Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder, 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 century was conducted by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz who during the mid-1930s developed the operation known as leucotomy. The practice was enthusiastically taken up in the United States by the neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman and the neurosurgeon James W. Watts who devised what became the standard prefrontal procedure and named their operative technique lobotomy, although the operation was called leucotomy in the United Kingdom. In spite of the award of the Nobel prize to Moniz in 1949, the use of psychosurgery declined during the 1950s. By the 1970s the standard Freeman-Watts type of operation was very rare, but other forms of psychosurgery, although used on a much smaller scale, survived. Some countries have abandoned psychosurgery altogether; in others, for example the US and the UK, it is only used in a few centres on small numbers of people with depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder; in others it is also used in the treatment of schizophrenia and other disorders.

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1. Psychosurgery

   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.

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1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Psychosurgery
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Psychosurgery