Question

2. Explain psycho-surgery?​

Answer 1

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the field of psychosurgery as “the selective surgical removal or destruction of nerve pathways for the purposes of influencing behavior.” Simply put, psychosurgery is brain surgery performed to treat psychiatric disorders.

Answer 2

Psychosurgery remains the last-resort treatment for intractable OC D. The most frequently performed operation, stereotactic subcaudate tractotomies or capsulotomy, intersects the connections between the frontal lobe and the thalamus and is thought to correct the proposed functional imbalance in OCD between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain.

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