Posted by lukeds on November 10, 2006, at 16:33:18
In reply to Re: Has psychosurgery helped anyone? or know someo, posted by med_empowered on November 10, 2006, at 13:34:58
It is better than SUICIDE. And the psychosurgery is rising in US and Europe.
Operated NEUROCIENCIA of depression Increase the cases of psicocirugía in the best hospital of the world
Neurosurgeons of the General Hospital of Massachusetts are taking a
end a new technique that, to confirm its results, could modify
psychiatric treatment. The cingulotomía is a surgical procedure
by means of which certain cerebral circuits are sectioned.
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VICTOR CORDOVA
MARGARET H., of 42 years, decided that she had been too much time in hell
like not worrying the last cartridge. After spending 25 years gotten depressed, of
to have proven 22 different medicines, to be entered four times
and of to have received electroshock, to Margaret she did not scare to him to enter
operating room. The last week, a neurosurgeon of the General Massachusetts
Hospital (MGH) - considered as the best medical institution of the world decided
to operate Margaret of its psicopatología.
The patient arrived at the operating theater sedada, although not slept. After
to apply in the head a special helmet to him of esterotaxia, the specialists him
they made a drill in a zone of the skull. By he himself they introduced one
it guides until a zone of the well-known brain like “gyrus cingulatus”.
With the end of the guide placed in the exact place, the only thing that was
to do was to send a unloading electrical so that the cingulotomía was made.
The idea had Thomas Ballantine, neurosurgeon of Boston, in 1962. The power
perhaps to break certain connections in the límbico system would help some types
of patient in whom all the therapeutic attempts had failed. Without
embargo, the critics arisen to the lobotomies practiced during years 50
and 60 in the obsessive patients paralyzed enough the starting of which it seemed
a promising specialty: psicocirugía.
Of esterotaxia the mortality and, the arrival cleaning same almost null
that it causes east type of technique, has given back psicocirugía part of
expectations on which it counted. In fact, in the MGH they are made between 20 and 30
cingulotomías every year.
With almost 900 conducted operations of this type, the neurosurgeons of
hospital stars of the University of Harvard insist in which the mortality of
the esterotáxica cingulotomía is practically null. The effectiveness of
surgery of the depression in the MGH is of 70%, although one more a revision
exhaustive of 33 patients it only could demonstrate significant improvement in 30%
of them.
The experts do not know surely which can be the reasons by which
psicocirugía makes improve the patients, once they are sectioned certain
cerebral circuits. Doctor Ballantine thinks that the procedure not only
he alters encephalic connections, but that modifies the levels of certain
neuroquímicos components.The young case of the suicidal one. - A work published in the British Journal of
Psychiatry, in 1987, made remember to many psychiatrists the paper that could
to have psicocirugía. One was the case of a Canadian young person of 19 years
with a obsessive-compulsive upheaval that did not allow him to live with normality.
Its terror to the contamination was of such caliber that needed to wash itself
hands every five minutes. A morning decided to commit suicide and a bullet went off
of caliber 22 in the head. The projectile crossed the brain through,
but it did not kill to him.
On the contrary, when the suicidal one left the hospital realized which
it had cured. A race has finished and works in its native city. In
any case, psicocirugía has still very bad press. Experts of
Institute of Technology of Massachusetts thinks that the paper of psicocirugía
it is very little defined.
Psychiatrists and psychologists think that still she is soon for burying the paper that
he can have the psycotherapy in the long term. Other neurocientíficos think, without
embargo, that the advances on the knowledge of the brain that will be in
next years will cause that psychiatry modifies in almost 180 degrees his
therapies.El Mundo is the second best seller paper in Spain behind El Pais.
Greetings. lukeds.
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