The Origins of Human Functional Stereotaxis: A Reappraisal.
Functional neurosurgery
History
Leucotomy
Psychosurgery
Stereotactic surgery
Stereotaxy
Thalamotomy
Journal
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
ISSN: 1423-0372
Titre abrégé: Stereotact Funct Neurosurg
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 8902881
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
29
08
2018
accepted:
09
12
2018
pubmed:
14
2
2019
medline:
12
2
2020
entrez:
14
2
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In order to shed light on the first application of human functional stereotactic neurosurgery, whether it was in the realm of movement disorders, as has been claimed repeatedly, or in the realm of psychiatry, a review of the original scholarly literature was conducted. Tracking and scrutinising original publications by Spiegel and Wycis, the pioneers of human stereotactic neurosurgery, it was found that its origin and the very incentive for its development and first clinical use were to avoid the side effects of frontal leucotomy. The first applications of functional stereotactic neurosurgery were in performing dorsomedial thalamotomies in psychiatric patients; it was only later that the stereotactic technique was applied in patients with chronic pain, movement disorders and epilepsy. Spiegel and Wycis' first functional stereotactic operations were for obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric conditions.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30759450
pii: 000496157
doi: 10.1159/000496157
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
49-54Informations de copyright
© 2019 S. Karger AG, Basel.