psychosurgery

1. Brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems (synset 100668627)
   is a type of: brain surgery - any surgical procedure involving the brain
   subtypes:

   • amygdalotomy - psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence)
   • callosectomy, callosotomy - severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy)
   • frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy - surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes

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