brain surgery

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psychosurgery

brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems

split-brain technique

brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted

amygdalotomy

psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence)

callosectomy, callosotomy

severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy)

frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy

surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes

Type of:

operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process

a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body