title: Outcome in bipolar affective disorder after stereotactic tractotomy.
abstract: Nine patients have been treated by subcaudate stereotactic tractotomy for bipolar affective disorder resistant to drug treatments. In the majority, after the operation there was a reduction in frequency and severity of depressive and manic episodes. There was a trend for the operation to have more effect on the manic than on the depressive phases. Drugs which had been inert previously sometimes became therapeutically useful after surgery.
authors: Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff.
authors: L M
authors: LM
authors: Lovett
authors: D M
authors: DM
authors: Shaw
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery*; D004351:Drug Resistance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011612:Psychosurgery; D012008:Recurrence