cingulotomy

Based on the data obtained, cingulotomy for treatment of chronic pain showed promising results.

Recent technological advances, however, have made bilateral cingulotomy a more precise operation.

He prepares to undergo a cingulotomy, an operation similar to a lobotomy.

Bilateral cingulotomy is a form of psychosurgery, introduced in 1948 as an alternative to lobotomy.

This usually results from injury to the brain, lobotomy, cingulotomy or morphine analgesia.

Another clinical study investigated the effect of bilateral cingulotomy for the treatment of refractory chronic pain.

Bilateral Cingulotomy targets the anterior cingulate cortex, which is a part of the limbic system.

Limbic leucotomy is a combination of subcaudate tractotomy and anterior cingulotomy.

Procedures include neurectomy, cordotomy, dorsal root entry zone lesioning, and cingulotomy.

The follow up of the patients produced contradictory results, which indicated that bilateral cingulotomy is not the optimal treatment for OCD.

The operation combines stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy and cingulotomy, with up to 14 cryogenic lesions made in the brain.

These findings have also been confirmed by stereotactic microelectrode analysis of single cortical neurons in a study, which involved nine patients undergoing bilateral cingulotomy.

The most common types of psychosurgery in current or recent use are capsulotomy, cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy and limbic leucotomy.

Thus, theoretically if bilateral cingulotomy is performed in such patient in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex, better results should be obtained.

In the early 2000s in Spain about 24 psychosurgical operations (capsulotomy, cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, and hypothalamotomy) a year were being performed.

Freeman's particular form of psychosurgery, the lobotomy, was last used in the 1970s, but other forms of psychosurgery, such as the cingulotomy and capsulotomy have survived.

In the late 1990s the Institute of the Human Brain in St Petersburg developed a programme of cingulotomy for the treatment of addiction.

They have been observed in neurological and psychiatric populations such as amnesics, individuals who have undergone a cingulotomy, obsessive compulsive individuals and alcoholics.

Functional MRI analyses of the anterior cingulate cortex have also led to the introduction of bilateral cingulotomy for the treatment of chronic pain.

In 2010 Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, performed an anterior cingulotomy on a woman who had previously undergone DBS.

As a last resort, she said, she may decide to undergo a cingulotomy, a form of brain surgery in which fibers deep in the frontal lobe are severed.

There are four different psychosurgical techniques that have been in common use in recent years: anterior cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, limbic leucotomy and anterior capsulotomy.

There is the discussion as to whether this is relevant and can be account to cingulotomy because such seizures were observed in patients that already had a history of this condition.

There were still a few standard leucotomies, but by the mid-1970s stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy, cingulotomy and stereotactic limbic leucotomy accounted for more than 50 per cent of operations.

The mild shorter postoperative complications that are most commonly related to bilateral cingulotomy are typical of head interventions and include but are not limited to nausea, vomiting, and headaches.