Psychosurgery involves severing or otherwise disabling areas of the brain to treat a personality disorder, behavior disorder, or other mental illness. Modern psychosurgical techniques target the pathways between the limbic system (the portion of the...

A term to describe a range of neurosurgical procedures conducted with the intention of minimizing or alleviating disabling psychological and emotional symptoms. Although crude behaviour modifying brain operations have been performed throughout human...

Psychosurgery is a term for surgeries of the brain involving procedures that modulate the performance of the brain, and thus effect changes in cognition, with the intent to treat or alleviate severe mental illness. It was originally thought that by...