Psychosurgery: New Dimensions in Mental Health Care
- Psychosurgery is the process of treating psychosis or other mental disorders through brain surgery.
- In this procedure, brain tissue is surgically removed. Its purpose is to change the emotional or cognitive state caused by mental illness.
- Psychosurgery is performed by stereotactic operations on the brain. During this process, some connections between the frontal lobe of the brain and the cortex, nuclei or other brain pathways are broken.
- Psychosurgery was started by Gottlieb Burckhardt in the year 1891. However, its widespread use began in the 1930s following the work of Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz.
- 'Mental Health Care Act, 2017' was introduced to strengthen mental ....
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