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Violence, mental illness, and the brain – A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 2 – From the limbic system and cingulotomy to deep brain stimulation

Knowledge of neuroscience flourished during and in the wake of the era of frontal lobotomy, as a byproduct of psychosurgery in the late 1930s and 1940s, revealing fascinating neural pathways and neurophysiologic mechanisms of the limbic system for the formulation of emotions, memory, and human behav...

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Main Author: Faria, Miguel A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683171/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23776761
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.112825
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