The treatment of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome by limbic leucotomy.
A patient with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and severe self-injurious compulsions who had failed to respond to drug treatment and behavioural therapy obtained a complete and sustained resolution of his destructive behaviour and improvement in his tics following bilateral limbic leucotomy.
Robertson
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Department of Neurology, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London.
Doran
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Trimble
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Lees
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AJ
D000328:Adult; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000601:surgery; D004564:Electrocoagulation / Q000379:methods; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000601:surgery; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008032:Limbic System / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D011612:Psychosurgery / Q000379:methods*; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000601:surgery; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*