Psychosurgery: a retrospective.
Of the 56 patients within the Yakovlev collection who had undergone psychosurgery 11 (20%) improved, 18 (32%) were either worse or without improvement, and 27 (48%) were without any clinical follow-up. Thus, in retrospect, psychosurgery was perhaps not as successful as once envisioned.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D011612:Psychosurgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed