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  • They used psychosurgical techniques to program him to assassinate a Klingon governor, and spark hostilities between the Federation and the Empire.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • They used psychosurgical techniques to program him to assassinate a Klingon governor, and spark hostilities between the Federation and the Empire.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • The doctor changed thousands of lives forever with that procedure and psychosurgical techniques like it; he calmed some patients 'wildly jangled existences and condemned others to imprisonment in their immobilized bodies and minds.

    Stuff. And things. driveforlife 2005

  • While the total number of psychosurgical procedures performed in the world is unknown, Emad N. Eskandar, of Massachusetts General Hospital, estimates fewer than 25 patients are operated on annually in the U.S. and Britain.

    In China, Brain Surgery 2007

  • Swayze II, VW: Frontal leukotomy and related psychosurgical procedures in the era before antipsychotics (1935-1954): A historical overview.

    Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize 1998

  • World War II inhibited the widespread use of lobotomy; between 1940 and 1945 only 924 psychosurgical procedures were reported.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • World War II inhibited the widespread use of lobotomy; between 1940 and 1945 only 924 psychosurgical procedures were reported.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • No antibiotic heroics, no psychosurgical wizardry, just ordinary everyday caring.

    Beyond Meds giannakali 2010

  • The doctor changed thousands of lives forever with that procedure and psychosurgical techniques like it; he calmed some patients 'wildly jangled existences and condemned others to imprisonment in their immobilized bodies and minds.

    Minnesota Premier Publications - Southwest Journal Stories 2009

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