单词 | psychosurgery |
释义 | psychosurgeryn. Medicine. Neurosurgery performed to treat mental illness and alter behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [noun] > types of surgery generally plastic surgery1837 self-surgery1863 oral surgery1866 electrosurgery1870 Listerism1880 morioplasty1880 brain surgery1881 tachytomy1898 neurosurgery1904 radiosurgery1929 psychosurgery1936 microsurgery1959 microsurgery1960 cryosurgery1962 day surgery1968 work1968 biosurgery1969 psychic surgery1975 telesurgery1976 1936 Q. Cumulative Index Medicus 19 249/1 First attempts at psychosurgery using leukotome; technic and results. 1973 Nature 23 Mar. 222/3 Unlike the classical lobotomy operation,..psychosurgery now rarely involves actually cutting into the brain... Psychosurgery, which is designed to alter behaviour, is usually distinguished from the treatment of epilepsy and the removal of brain tumours. 1989 C. R. Legg Issues in Psychobiol. (BNC) 22 Egas Moniz was stimulated into developing the now largely abandoned technique of controlling psychological disorders by the use of psychosurgery after hearing about the ‘beneficial’ side-effects of frontal lobe removal in chimpanzees. 2004 Current Psychiatry Rep. 6 355 The results of psychosurgery for the treatment of several psychiatric conditions and neuropsychiatric symptoms will be presented, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette's syndrome, depression, anxiety, aggression, self-injurious behavior, and schizophrenia. Derivatives ˌpsychoˈsurgical adj. [ < psycho- comb. form + surgical adj.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [adjective] > types of surgery generally minor1825 exploratory1828 plastic1837 electrosurgical1870 Listerian1880 open1894 neurosurgical1918 micro-operative1922 cosmetic1926 microsurgical1927 radiosurgical1928 atraumatic1934 psychosurgical1946 cryosurgical1962 1946 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 60 435/1 In 1941 the research unit of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital embarked upon the psychosurgical treatment of hopelessly mentally ill patients. 1981 G. Winokur Depression xii. 139 Newer psychosurgical methods have been associated with less morbidity. 2004 Current Psychiatry Rep. 6 355 Psychosurgical procedures have been used for the treatment of intractable mental illness for more than 50 years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936 |
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