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The history of surgical intervention in the human brain to treat psychic disorders goes back approximately a century. The first procedure was performed by Burckhardt, who, in 1890, extirpated parts of the cerebral cortex for schizophrenia.
I expected to be able to transform the psychic reactions and to relieve the patients thereby. Egas Moniz
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Kandel, E.I. (1989). Mental Disorders. In: Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0703-7_18
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