Neuroendocrinol Lett
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Neuroendocrinol Lett · Nov 2008
Review Historical ArticlePsychosurgery: the past and present of ablation procedures.
Surgical intervention to the brain has a long history, but contemporary psychosurgery started in the mid-1930s. The first psychosurgical operation was a prefrontal leucotomy. ⋯ In recent years, the introduction of neuromodulation techniques seemed to produce a qualitative progress in modern psychosurgery. However, the controversies about these surgical interventions to the brain among psychiatrists still restrict the indications for psychosurgery to highly selected cases.