| In modern psychiatry ECT and psychosurgery are used in a much more discriminate and refined manner. |
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| In general, that's sort of a fuzzy borderline between psychosurgery and neurological surgery. |
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| With the legacy of psychosurgery, it's important that we don't misrepresent things as therapy when they're not. |
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| In the field of medicine, this was the era of neurosurgery and psychosurgery. |
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| In some countries, the use of psychosurgery and electroshock on children is banned. |
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| Legislation in the U. S. has been enacted that bans the use of electroshock and psychosurgery on children. |
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| Legislation may ban the use of irreversible treatment procedures on children, especially psychosurgery and sterilization. |
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| The new representatives of psychosurgery are very careful and strict in selecting their patients. |
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| Emergency treatment should not include ECT, depot neuroleptics and irreversible treatments such as psychosurgery or sterilization procedures. |
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| But in 1935, the distinguished Portuguese neuroscientist, Egas Moniz, directed the first prefrontal lobotomy, and this marked the real beginning of modern psychosurgery. |
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| But I doubt that many people would be aware that psychosurgery, or brain surgery, is being done to treat mental illness or behavioural problems today. |
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| As you'll hear later, the development of psychosurgery, and the debate surrounding it, have been a close companion to the evolution of neuropsychiatry. |
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| He has never been on lithium or had shock treatments or psychosurgery. |
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| Medical evidence must be presented, the disposition is limited to 60 days, and neither Out of the Shadows at Last psychosurgery nor electroconvulsive therapy may be administered. |
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| The practice of lobotomy and psychosurgery can serve as examples. |
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| As an example of the work of the Commission, prior to its establishment, every year psychosurgery was performed, on average, on 40 patients for severe mental disorder associated with aggressive behaviour. |
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| No medical or surgical procedures, no psychosurgery or shock therapy shall be administered to any patient without such patient's written informed consent, except as provided by statute. |
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| Countries may decide to enact legislation to protect people against abuses in the use of certain treatments such as major medical and surgical procedures, ECT, psychosurgery or other irreversible treatments. |
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| For all the hyperbole and hysteria, the psychosurgery and the Ritalin debates served a useful purpose. |
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| In 1976, due to CCHR's efforts, the first law to protect patients against enforced electroshock and psychosurgery was passed in California, providing informed consent and banning their use on children under the age of twelve. |
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| Whether the formal rites of exorcism will ever become one of the treatments, ranging from psychosurgery to cognitive behavioral therapy remains to be seen. |
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