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Egas Moniz (1875-1955), the father of psychosurgery.

Epilepsy surgery in China.

Neural stimulation successfully treats depression in patients with prior ablative cingulotomy.

Stereotactic treatment of refractory obsessive compulsive disorder by bilateral capsulotomy with 3 years follow-up.

Neurosurgical approaches to therapeutic brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression.

The lobotomist.

Comparison of corpus callosotomy and vagus nerve stimulation in children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

Interictal triple ECoG characteristics of temporal lobe epilepsies: An intraoperative ECoG analysis correlated with surgical outcome.

Management of epilepsy in tuberous sclerosis complex.

Remifentanil-induced spike activity as a diagnostic tool in epilepsy surgery.

Limbic leukotomy for intractable major affective disorders: a 7-year follow-up study using nine comprehensive psychiatric test evaluations.

Stereotactic amygdalotomy in the management of severe aggressive behavioral disorders.

From prefrontal leukotomy to deep brain stimulation: the historical transformation of psychosurgery and the emergence of neuroethics.

Commentary: is CIT today's lobotomy?

Between the ego and the icepick: psychosurgery, psychoanalysis, and psychiatric discourse.

Jean Talairach (1911-2007).

The neurosurgical treatment of addiction.

Lessons of the first era of psychosurgery.

[Surgical treatment of patients with therapy-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. Review]

Biological basis for the surgical treatment of depression.