AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most common types of psychosurgery in current or recent use are anterior capsulotomy, cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy and limbic leucotomy. Lesions are made by radiation, thermo-coagulation, freezing or cutting. About a third of patients show significant improvement in their symptoms after operation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Current examples of psychosurgery include amygdalotomy, limbic leucotomy, and anterior capsulotomy. People with severe epilepsy may undergo psychosurgery to target the specific area in the brain from which seizures originate.

Detailed explanation-3: -n. the treatment of a mental disorder by surgical removal or destruction of selective brain areas. The most well-known example of psychosurgery is prefrontal lobotomy, historically used particularly for schizophrenia but also a variety of other disorders.

Detailed explanation-4: -Psychosurgery – sometimes called functional neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders or psychiatric neurosurgery – is the treatment of psychiatric disorders by means of cerebral neurosurgery. From the time of the first operation in the 1930s until today, psychosurgery has been a controversial treatment.