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Anterior Cingulectomy in Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders: Clinical Results
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2018
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Recent interest in the surgical alleviation of mental disorders has centred in the trial of new and different operations. Fairly early in the development of the subject Freeman and Watts (1944) themselves reported the fairly constant observation that under local anaesthesia gross mental change did not occur until certain stab incisions had been made deep in the infero-medial quadrants. Marked mental change, with confusion, unresponsiveness and disorientation, seemed to occur on section of a small bundle of fibres located interiorly close to the midline. Most of the modifications of Moniz's original procedure have, however, been made on an essentially empirical basis.
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