Psychosurgery for obsessive-compulsive disorder - Concerns remain

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 241-243

  Bejerot, Susanne ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; ANTIANDROGEN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BUSPIRONE; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; CLONAZEPAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; LEVODOPA; LITHIUM; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NICOTINE; OLANZAPINE; OPIATE; PAROXETINE; PINDOLOL; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRYPTOPHAN;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROSURGERY; OBESITY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHASTHENIA; PSYCHOSURGERY; SEXUAL CRIME; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SURGICAL RISK;

CEREBELLUM; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARIETAL LOBE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSURGERY; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037391347     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.00078.x     Document Type: Editorial

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