Psychosurgery
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Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorder.
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See also
- History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom
- Phineas Gage, who famously suffered an accident in 1848 which destroyed most or all of his left frontal lobe, and who is sometimes said (incorrectly) to have inspired or influenced the development of lobotomy.
- Wylie McKissock
- Elliot Valenstein
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