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Rzesnitzek, Lara
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Psychosurgery in the History of Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery
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2020-06-29
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S. Karger,2020
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:umu-179162
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https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-179162URI
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https://doi.org/10.1159/000508167DOI
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Language:English
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The paper invites to reappraise the role of psychosurgery for and within the development of functional stereotactic neurosurgery. It highlights the significant and long-lived role of stereotactic neurosurgery in the treatment of severe and chronic mental disorders. Stereotactic neurosurgery developed out of psychosurgery. It was leucotomy for psychiatric disorders and chronic pain that paved the way for stereotactic dorsomedial thalamotomy in these indications and subsequently for stereotactic surgery in epilepsy and movement disorders. Through the 1960s stereotactic psychosurgery continued to progress in silence. Due to the increased applications of stereotactic surgery in psychiatric indications, psychosurgery's renaissance was proclaimed in the early 1970s. At the same time, however, a public fearing mind control started to discredit all functional neurosurgery for mental disorders, including stereotactic procedures. In writing its own history, stereotactic neurosurgery's identity as a neuropsychiatric discipline became subsequently increasingly redefined as principally a sort of "surgical neurology," cut off from its psychiatric origin.
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Hariz, MarwanUmeå universitet,Neurovetenskaper,ICL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK(Swepub:umu)hama0032
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Krauss, Joachim K.
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Umeå universitetNeurovetenskaper
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In:Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery: S. Karger98:4, s. 241-2471011-61251423-0372
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