Category
page 1Physical psychiatric treatments
electroconvulsive therapy
medical procedure
transcranial magnetic stimulation
form of brain stimulation using magnetic fields
psychosurgery
Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorders. Psychosurgery has always been a controversial medical field. The modern history of psychosurgery begins in the 1880s under the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt. The first significant foray into psychosurgery in the 20th century was conducted by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz who, during the mid-1930s, developed the operation known as leucotomy. The practice was enthusiastically taken up in the United States by the neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman and the neurosurg
insulin shock therapy
psychiatric treatment
neurobiological effects of physical exercise
neural, cognitive, and behavioral effects of physical exercise
deep sleep therapy
psychiatric treatment
electrical brain stimulation
form of electrotherapy and technique used in research and clinical neurobiology