psychosurgeryn.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˈsəːdʒ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˈsərdʒəri/ Medicine.
Neurosurgery performed to treat mental illness and alter behaviour.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [noun] > types of surgery generally
plastic surgery1837
self-surgery1863
oral surgery1866
electrosurgery1870
Listerism1880
morioplasty1880
brain surgery1881
tachytomy1898
neurosurgery1904
radiosurgery1929
psychosurgery1936
microsurgery1959
microsurgery1960
cryosurgery1962
day surgery1968
work1968
biosurgery1969
psychic surgery1975
telesurgery1976
1936 Q. Cumulative Index Medicus 19 249/1 First attempts at psychosurgery using leukotome; technic and results.
1973 Nature 23 Mar. 222/3 Unlike the classical lobotomy operation,..psychosurgery now rarely involves actually cutting into the brain... Psychosurgery, which is designed to alter behaviour, is usually distinguished from the treatment of epilepsy and the removal of brain tumours.
1989 C. R. Legg Issues in Psychobiol. (BNC) 22 Egas Moniz was stimulated into developing the now largely abandoned technique of controlling psychological disorders by the use of psychosurgery after hearing about the ‘beneficial’ side-effects of frontal lobe removal in chimpanzees.
2004 Current Psychiatry Rep. 6 355 The results of psychosurgery for the treatment of several psychiatric conditions and neuropsychiatric symptoms will be presented, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette's syndrome, depression, anxiety, aggression, self-injurious behavior, and schizophrenia.
Derivatives
ˌpsychoˈsurgical adj. [ < psycho- comb. form + surgical adj.]
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [adjective] > types of surgery generally
minor1825
exploratory1828
plastic1837
electrosurgical1870
Listerian1880
open1894
neurosurgical1918
micro-operative1922
cosmetic1926
microsurgical1927
radiosurgical1928
atraumatic1934
psychosurgical1946
cryosurgical1962
1946 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 60 435/1 In 1941 the research unit of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital embarked upon the psychosurgical treatment of hopelessly mentally ill patients.
1981 G. Winokur Depression xii. 139 Newer psychosurgical methods have been associated with less morbidity.
2004 Current Psychiatry Rep. 6 355 Psychosurgical procedures have been used for the treatment of intractable mental illness for more than 50 years.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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