| 21. | In the "'US "'the Massachusetts General Hospital has a psychosurgery program.
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| 22. | His prior appointments include President of the Mental Health Review Board and Chairman of the Psychosurgery Review Board.
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| 23. | By the end of the 1980s about 20 patients a year were undergoing psychosurgery in the United Kingdom.
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| 24. | There is debate about whether deep brain stimulation ( DBS ) should be classed as a form of psychosurgery.
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| 25. | In 1888 he pioneered modern psychosurgery when he excised various brain regions from six psychiatric patients under his care.
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| 26. | His books include " The Mind Stealers, " about psychosurgery and mind control, published in 1978.
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| 27. | In 1888, Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt performed the first medically sanctioned psychosurgery in which the cerebral cortex was excised.
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| 28. | However, psychosurgery fell into disrepute in the 1970s, partly due to its use on children with behavioural problems.
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| 29. | With the brief popularization of lobotomy in the 1940s, sympathectomy fell out of favor as a form of psychosurgery.
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| 30. | These included the convulsive therapies ( cardiazol / metrazol therapy and electroconvulsive therapy ), deep sleep therapy and psychosurgery.
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