Any surgical technique in which neural pathways in the brain are cut in order to change behaviour. See lobotomy.
Neurosurgery performed to alleviate manifestations of mental disorders that cannot be brought under control using psychotherapy, medication, or other standard treatments. Psychosurgery can be helpful in severe cases of, for example, obsessive-compulsive disorder.
brain surgery used to treat functional mental disorders.
Surgical procedures involving specific brain regions that is performed in efforts to alleviate psychiatric symptoms. This approach is considered as a last resort in cases where the patient is severely impaired by symptoms ( e.g., severe OCD) and has been unresponsive to multiple medication trials.
Brain surgery once used to reduce symptoms of mental disorder but rarely used today psychosurgery (139.0K)
brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
Surgery on the brain to control or change thoughts, emotions, and/or behavior.
the treatment of psychological disorders by destroying brain tissue. (539)
The practice of performing surgery on the brain to treat or alleviate mental disorder. Alliance policy on treatment safeguards...
Psychosurgery is a term for surgeries of the brain involving procedures that modulate the performance of the brain, and thus effect changes in cognition, with the intent to treat or alleviate severe mental illness. It was originally thought that by severing the nerves that give power to ideas you would achieve the desirable result of a loss of affect and an emotional flattening which would diminish creativity and imagination; the idea being that those are the human characteristics that are disturbed. Historically, the procedure typically considered psychosurgery, prefrontal leukotomy is now almost universally shunned as inappropriate, due in part to the emergence of less-invasive or less-objectionable methods of treatment such as psychiatric medication and modified electroconvulsive therapy.