| 单词 | psychosurgery |
| 释义 | psychosurgery (once / 454589 pages) n WORD FAMILY psychosurgery USAGE EXAMPLESThe story of psychosurgery—operating on the brain to treat mental illnesses—is a dark one, and his grandfather played a key role in it. Economist(Aug 18, 2016) The rise of psychosurgery gave doctors and researchers license to perform on human beings the same sorts of brain-cutting experiments once limited to chimpanzees. New York Times(Aug 08, 2016) Dr. Corkin published more than 100 research papers, touching on topics as varied as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and psychosurgery. New York Times(May 27, 2016) n brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems Hypo|Hyper amygdalotomy psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence) callosectomy, callosotomysevering the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomysurgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes transorbital lobotomya method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers brain surgery any surgical procedure involving the brain |
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