"Psychosurgery" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D011612
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.525.600 F04.570.630
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| Concept/Terms |
Leukotomy- Leukotomy
- Leukotomies
- Leucotomy
- Leucotomies
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Psychosurgery" by people in Profiles.
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Stereotactic laser anterior corpus callosotomy for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Epilepsia. 2020 06; 61(6):1190-1200.
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Prevention of surgical site infections after brain surgery: the prehistoric period to the present. Neurosurg Focus. 2019 08 01; 47(2):E2.
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Lesion analysis for cingulotomy and limbic leucotomy: comparison and correlation with clinical outcomes. J Neurosurg. 2014 Jan; 120(1):152-163.
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Frontal lobotomy. Neurology. 2012 Oct 23; 79(17):1830.
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Selection and evaluation of children for epilepsy surgery. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2001 Jan; 34(1):1-12.
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Severity of symptoms in chronically institutionalized geriatric schizophrenic patients. Am J Psychiatry. 1995 Feb; 152(2):197-207.
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Leukotomy and aging in chronic schizophrenia: a followup study 40 years after psychosurgery. Schizophr Bull. 1993; 19(4):723-32.
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Reoperation for intractable seizures. Clin Neurosurg. 1992; 39:125-39.
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Neurosurgical and related interventions for the treatment of patients with psychiatric disorders. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1990; 2(3):253-5.
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The Landau-Kleffner syndrome of acquired epileptic aphasia: unusual clinical outcome, surgical experience, and absence of encephalitis. Neurology. 1988 Jan; 38(1):31-8.