Psychosurgery
Overview
Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment
of mental disorder. 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 twentieth century was conducted by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz. During the mid-1930s he developed the operation known as leucotomy.
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.-In the United States:In...
of mental disorder. Psychosurgery has always been a controversial medical field. The modern history of psychosurgery begins in the 1880s under the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt
Gottlieb Burckhardt
Johann Gottlieb Burckhardt was a Swiss psychiatrist and the medical director of small mental hospital in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. He is commonly regarded as having performed the first modern psychosurgical operation...
. The first significant foray into psychosurgery in the twentieth century was conducted by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz. During the mid-1930s he developed the operation known as leucotomy.
