Improvement in severe self-mutilation following limbic leucotomy: A series of 5 consecutive cases

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 925-932

  Price, B H ^a   Baral, I ^a   Cosgrove, G R ^a   Rauch, S L ^a   Nierenberg, A A ^a   Jenike, M A ^a   Cassem, E H ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035664980     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/jcp.v62n1202     Document Type: Article

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