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A Further Review of the Results of Stereotactic Subcaudate Tractotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. O. Göktepe ,
Lucy B. Young  and
P. K. Bridges
E. O. Göktepe*
Affiliation:
The Geoffrey Knight Psychosurgical Unit, Brook General Hospital, Shooters Hill Road, London, SE18 4LW
Lucy B. Young
Affiliation:
The Geoffrey Knight Psychosurgical Unit, Brook General Hospital, Shooters Hill Road, London, SE18 4LW
P. K. Bridges
Affiliation:
The Geoffrey Knight Psychosurgical Unit, Brook General Hospital, Shooters Hill Road, London, SE18 4LW
*
∗Now Senior Registrar, Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, Surrey.
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There is accumulating evidence of the clinical effectiveness of selective stereotactic psychosurgery in some severely disabled psychiatric patients who have not responded to other forms of treatment (Ström-Olsen and Carlisle, 1971; Bridges, Göktepe and Maratos, 1973; Kelly et al., 1973). The risks of adverse effects resulting from operation are now small, and their significance is further diminished when related to the distress over long periods of those patients who are suitable for psychosurgery. The criteria for selection have been considered by Bridges and Bartlett (1973).

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 3 , March 1975 , pp. 270 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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