Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
psychosurgery Audio
psy·cho·sur·ger·y [ sahy-koh-sur-juh-ree ]
Subclass of:
Psychiatric Somatic Therapies; Neurosurgical Procedures
Definitions related to 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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    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Psychosurgery, the treatment of psychosis or other mental disorders by means of brain surgery. The first such technique was developed by a Portuguese neurologist, Antonio Egas Moniz, and was first performed by his colleague, Almeida Lima, in 1935. The procedure, called lobotomy or prefrontal...
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    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025
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