There are four different psychosurgical techniques that have been in common use in recent years : anterior cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, limbic leucotomy and anterior capsulotomy.
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Success rates for anterior capsulotomy, anterior cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, and limbic leucotomy in treating depression and OCD have been reported as between 25 and 70 per cent.
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In the early 2000s in "'Spain "'about 24 psychosurgical operations ( capsulotomy, cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, and hypothalamotomy ) a year were being performed.
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The operation was then called stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy and by the mid-1970s, although only used at two neurosurgical units ( which by that time had replaced mental hospitals as the sites for psychosurgical operations ), it accounted for 30 per cent of operations in the United Kingdom.
