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Neurosurgical Treatments for Psychiatric Indications

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Abstract

Neurosurgery for psychiatric indications is perhaps the strongest statement to date that psychiatric disorders, like neurological disorders, are grounded in brain dysfunction. The premise underlying the effectiveness of these procedures is that altering brain structure will change mental functioning. As we learn more about how biological states serve as a substrate for complex mental phenomena, the practice of psychiatry approaches that of other medical specialties, such as neurology. Psychiatric disorders are increasingly conceptualized as an alteration of brain processing and treatments are designed to intervene on a neurobiological level. Although the pull to connect mind and brain has been evident throughout the history of medicine, it has only been recently that we have begun to understand how and why brain-based interventions affect mental functioning in a clinically meaningful way.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Lawrence T. Park MD

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Darin D. Dougherty MD, MSC

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Scott L. Rauch MD

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    Dilip V. Jests MD

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    Dilip V. Jests MD

  3. Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, NeuroHealth, Warwick, RI

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Park, L.T., Dougherty, D.D., Rauch, S.L. (2006). Neurosurgical Treatments for Psychiatric Indications. In: Jests, D.V., Friedman, J.H. (eds) Psychiatry for Neurologists. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-960-8_26

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