Psychosurgery: Yesterday and Today

A PROPOSED MECHANISM OF EMOTION

1937 • 3,511 citations

The problem of the frontal lobe: A reinterpretation

1971 • 892 citations

Suicide and Primary Affective Disorders

1970 • 722 citations

Surgical Approaches in Psychiatry

1974 • 307 citations

Stereotaxic Amygdalotomy for Behavior Disorders

1963 • 223 citations

PREFRONTAL LEUCOTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS

1937 • 205 citations

STEREOTAXY FOR OBESITY

1974 • 182 citations

A Further Review of the Results of Stereotactic Subcaudate Tractotomy

1975 • 167 citations

ANTERIOR CINGULECTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE

1952 • 163 citations

Stereotactic tractotomy in the surgical treatment of mental illness

1965 • 154 citations

Stereotactic Limbic Leucotomy—A Follow-up at 16 Months

1976 • 152 citations

Retrograde degeneration of the thalamus following prefrontal lobotomy

1947 • 133 citations

Bi-Frontal Stereotactic Tractotomy

1971 • 129 citations

Tentatives opératoires dans le traitement de certaines psychoses

1936 • 118 citations

Stereotactic Limbic Leucotomy: Neurophysiological Aspects and Operative Technique

1973 • 110 citations

Bimedial Leucotomy in Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis: A Controlled Serial Enquiry

1971 • 110 citations

Modified Leucotomy in Severe Agoraphobia: A Controlled Serial Inquiry

1966 • 107 citations

Selective Cortical Undercutting As a Means of Modifying and Studying Frontal Lobe Function in Man

1949 • 107 citations

The orbital cortex as an objective in the surgical treatment of mental illness. The results of 450 cases of open operation and the development of the stereotactic approach

1964 • 100 citations

TRANSORBITAL LEUCOTOMY

1948 • 94 citations

Stereotaxic Amygdalotomy for Epilepsy With Aggressive Behavior

1966 • 85 citations

Neurosurgical Treatment in Psychiatry, Pain, and Epilepsy

1978 • 79 citations

OBSERVATIONS ON SELECTIVE LEUCOTOMY

1961 • 66 citations

Restricted Orbital Undercutting

1964 • 64 citations

Frontal Lobotomy and Affective Behavior: A Neurophysiological Analysis

1951 • 64 citations

A Comparative Review of Patients with Obsessional Neurosis and with Depression Treated by Psychosurgery

1973 • 61 citations

Stereotactic amygdaloidotomy for aggressive behaviour

1974 • 56 citations

The Practical Management of Affective Disorders

1977 • 53 citations

Bi-frontal Stereotactic Tractotomy: An Atraumatic Operation of Value in the Treatment of Intractable Psychoneurosis

1969 • 53 citations

CONTROLLED MULTIFOCAL FRONTAL LEUCOTOMY FOR PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS

1961 • 51 citations

Stereotactic hypothalamotomy for behaviour disorders

1972 • 50 citations

Precursors and metabolites of 5-hydroxytryptamine and dopamine in the ventricular cerebrospinal fluid of psychiatric patients

1976 • 44 citations

Stereotaxic amygdalotomy and basofrontal tractotomy in psychotics with aggressive behaviour

1970 • 43 citations

Treatment of Medically Intractable Mental Disease by Limited Frontal Leucotomy — Justifiable?

1973 • 39 citations

The Lesion in Stereotactic Subcaudate Tractotomy

1975 • 39 citations

STEREOTACTIC LESIONS IN THE KNEE OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM IN THE TREATMENT OF EMOTIONAL DISORDERS

1972 • 37 citations

Amygdalotomy

1973 • 37 citations

An Evaluation of Bimedial Leucotomy

1968 • 36 citations

Modified Frontal Leucotomy: A Review of 106 Cases

1964 • 34 citations

Current Themes in Psychiatry 1

1978 • 31 citations

Psychosurgery: National Commission Issues Surprisingly Favorable Report

1976 • 31 citations

Further observations from an experience of 660 cases of stereotactic tractotomy

1973 • 30 citations

Frontal Lobotomy in Early Schizophrenia Long Follow-up in 415 Cases

1971 • 29 citations

SURVEY OF NINE YEARS OF LOBOTOMY INVESTIGATIONS

1952 • 29 citations

The Frontal Lobes Revisited

1969 • 28 citations

Clinico-Anatomical Studies of Frontal Lobe Function Based on Leucotomy Material

1949 • 24 citations

STUDIES IN DEPRESSION, III: THE CONTROL OF AFFECTIVE ILLNESS BY CINGULOTRACTOTOMY: A REVIEW OF 150 CASES

1973 • 24 citations

Clinical Neurosurgery

1969 • 20 citations

UNDERCUTTING OF ORBITAL CORTEX IN CHRONIC NEUROTIC AND PSYCHOTIC TENSION STATES

1955 • 17 citations

Stereotactic surgery for the relief of suicidal and severe depression and intractable psychoneurosis

1969 • 17 citations

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1965 • 16 citations

Studies of endocrine activity, plasma tryptophan and catecholamine excretion on psychosurgical patients

1977 • 16 citations

Physiological changes during operations on the limbic system in man

1972 • 16 citations

Psychosurgery today: psychiatric aspects.

1972 • 15 citations

The value and limitations of psychosurgery in the treatment of psychiatric illness.

1973 • 15 citations

The work of a psychosurgical unit

1973 • 13 citations

STEREOTAXY FOR OBESITY

1974 • 12 citations

STUDIES IN DEPRESSION: 1. CINGULO‐TRACTOTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF SEVERE AFFECTIVE ILLNESS

1971 • 11 citations

Treatment of schizophrenia: III. A survey of the literature on prefrontal leucotomy

1974 • 9 citations

Intracerebral polarisation and multifocal leucocoagulation in some psychiatric illnesses.

1973 • 9 citations

Neurosurgery in the Control of Unmanageable Affective Reactions: a Critical Review

1969 • 4 citations

STEREOTACTIC LESIONS IN THE KNEE OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM IN THE TREATMENT OF EMOTIONAL DISORDERS

1972 • 2 citations

The efficacy of psychosurgery.

1974 • 2 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations