How To Use Psychosurgery In A Sentence
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We have a sad history of enforced treatment of people who've committed crimes but now treatments like electrotherapy, electric shock treatment, and psychosurgery are very strictly regulated.
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In general, that's sort of a fuzzy borderline between psychosurgery and neurological surgery.
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His psychiatrist then recommended that he undergo psychosurgery.
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In modern psychiatry ECT and psychosurgery are used in a much more discriminate and refined manner.
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But in 1935, the distinguished Portuguese neuroscientist, Egas Moniz, directed the first prefrontal lobotomy, and this marked the real beginning of modern psychosurgery.
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Despite growing unease, more refined procedures such as cingulotomies were developed and the modern era of psychosurgery was born.
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The Veterans' Administration openly admitted that psychosurgery was a standard procedure for treatment and not used just in experiments.
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Although Lucio's symptoms gradually abated, and despite Dr. Nise's strong objections, he was subjected to a then popular form of psychosurgery - lobotomy.
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But you can regard cosmetic surgery as being almost psychosurgery in that many of the conditions we are treating, even in people that are well adjusted, are in fact a psychological perception of aging of physical deformity.
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There is strong evidence to indicate psychosurgery was still being used in prisons in the 1980's.
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In general, that's sort of a fuzzy borderline between psychosurgery and neurological surgery.
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His psychiatrist then recommended that he undergo psychosurgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I doubt that many people would be aware that psychosurgery, or brain surgery, is being done to treat mental illness or behavioural problems today.
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With the legacy of psychosurgery, it's important that we don't misrepresent things as therapy when they're not.
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As you'll hear later, the development of psychosurgery, and the debate surrounding it, have been a close companion to the evolution of neuropsychiatry.
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Despite growing unease, more refined procedures such as cingulotomies were developed and the modern era of psychosurgery was born.
Times, Sunday Times
