Psychosurgery
id:
psychosurgery-189-8345961
title:
Psychosurgery
text:
Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorders. Psychosurgery has always been a controversial medical field. The modern history of psychosurgery begins in the 1880s under the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt. The first significant foray into psychosurgery in the 20th century was conducted by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz who, during the mid-1930s, developed the operation known as leucotomy. The practice was enth
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Neurosurgical treatment of mental disorders
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosurgery
date created:
2002-03-11T23:47:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T11:04:40Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1758020","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1758020"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15