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Brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
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psychosurgery
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n. (context surgery English) Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness.
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Psychosurgery , also called neurosurgery for mental disorder ( NMD ), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorder . Psychosurgery has always been a controversial medical field. The modern history of psychosurgery begins in the 1880s under the Swiss ...
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n. brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
Usage examples of psychosurgery.
He used combinations of psychosurgery, behavioral modification, and potent neurotropics, as well as old-fashioned torture.