Until the 1970s, rather crude forms of psychosurgery had been used in hundreds of
thousands of mentally ill patients (Valenstein 1986; Diering & Bell 1991; Chodakiewitz et al …

Psychiatric neurosurgery has resurfaced over the past two decades for the treatment of
severe mental health disorders, with improved precision and safety over older interventions …

Psychosurgery: Avoiding an Ethical Redux while Advancing a T... : Neurosurgery Psychosurgery:
Avoiding an Ethical Redux while Advancing a Therapeutic Future : Neurosurgery …

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for psychiatric disorders needs to be investigated in proper
research trials. However, there are rare circumstances in which DBS could be offered to …

There is an urgent need for an effective therapy for treatment-refractory mental illness. Trials
ongoing globally that explore surgical treatment, such as deep brain stimulation, for …

The use of stereotactic surgery had already started over a century ago, in 1908, when Sir
Victor Horsley and Robert Clarke introduced a new apparatus to insert a probe or needle …

Object Advances in the neurosciences are stirring debate regarding the ethical issues
surrounding novel neurosurgical interventions. The application of deep brain stimulation …

To the Editor: Since the first publication on deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Tourette
syndrome in Lancet in February 1999 (16) and the first publication on DBS for obsessive …

Abstract Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has emerged as a revolutionary neurosurgical
technique with significant implications for the treatment of various neuropsychiatric …

On the topic of deep brain stimulation (DBS), it is curious that many in the bioethics
community have seemingly been more apt to address its comparatively exotic applications …