cingulotomy

“In one procedure, called a cingulotomy, doctors drill into the skull and thread wires into an area called the anterior cingulate.”

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“A surgical procedure called cingulotomy has cured hundreds.”

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“In this treatment, surgeons go deeper in the brain than in a cingulotomy, into an area called the internal capsule, and burn out spots in a circuit that are also thought to be overactive.”

The Huffington Post: Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: "Out, Damned Spot! Out, I Say!": Wrestling With the Demons of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

“In cingulotomy, surgeons thread wires into an area of the brain called the anterior cingulate.”

The Huffington Post: Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: "Out, Damned Spot! Out, I Say!": Wrestling With the Demons of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

“A cingulotomy eliminates the ability to feel the badness, but does nothing about nociception (the nonconceptual experience of bodily injury).”

Well, It’s Relatively Objective

“The role of stereotactic cingulotomy in the treatment of intractable depression.”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

“For instance, pain asymbolia also typically produces a kind of dissociation ” a rather strong kind ” sometimes similar to cingulotomy patients 'but interestingly different from lobotomy patients' (Rubins and Friedman 1948; Hurt and Ballantyne”

Pain

“Barber 1959; Bouckoms 1994) or cingulotomy (Foltz and White 1962a,”

Pain

“States also cingulotomy), and the indications have changed to chronic anxiety - and obsessive compulsive syndromes which have shown themselves resistant to other treatments.”

Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize