Fossil records showing trephination in the Stone Age provide evidence that humans have
sought to influence the mind through physical means since before the historical record …

Brain surgery to promote behavioral or affective changes in humans remains one of the most
controversial topics at the interface of medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, and bioethics …

Aim: To determine whether there is a long-term benefit of MRI-guided bilateral anterior
capsulotomy in the treatment of refractory schizophrenia. Methods: 116 patients (16 patients …

Well-described clinical case reports have been a core component of the neuropsychiatry
literature and have led to: a deepened understanding of brain-behavior relationships and …

The history of psychosurgery is most often recounted as a narrative wherein Portuguese and
American physicians play the leading role. It is a traditional narrative in which the United …

Dr. William Beecher Scoville (1906–1984) is a giant figure in the history of neurosurgery,
well known by the public for his operation on Patient HM He developed dozens of …

At the Paris Colloquium held forty years ago, and which this paper celebrates, the issue of
psychosurgery had not been tackled yet. At that time psychosurgery was tainted by the …

I was not aware that there was a meticulous record keeping and archiving of the ISPS, nor
where that archival material is kept. I praise the authors to have made parts of those archives …

Psychosurgery was born from the need to manage patients suffering from untreatable
mental pathologies. In 1935, the Portuguese neurologist Moniz, a pioneer in the field …

La psychochirurgie est née de la nécessité de prendre en charge des patients souffrant de
pathologies mentales en impasse thérapeutique. Le neurologue portugais Moniz fut l'un des …