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- noun A form of
brain surgery in which anelectric current is used to destroy thecortex of thecingulate gyrus and part of thecorpus callosum
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Examples
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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 one procedure, called a cingulotomy, doctors drill into the skull and thread wires into an area called the anterior cingulate.
The Times of India 2009
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A surgical procedure called cingulotomy has cured hundreds.
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In cingulotomy, surgeons thread wires into an area of the brain called the anterior cingulate.
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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.
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In cingulotomy, surgeons thread wires into an area of the brain called the anterior cingulate.
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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.
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A cingulotomy eliminates the ability to feel the badness, but does nothing about nociception (the nonconceptual experience of bodily injury).
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The role of stereotactic cingulotomy in the treatment of intractable depression.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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