Lesions made in the rabbit brain to assist the design and use of electrodes for amygdalotomy in man.
The lesion sizes produced by passing anodic currents of up to 10 mA through gold electrodes implanted in rabbit brains have been estimated histologically. The information has been used to design sheaves of similar electrodes implanted in human brains for amygdalotomy. The maximum current that can be passed through an electrode without generating an excessive temperature has been defined approximately.
D000679:Amygdala / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000601:surgery*; D000818:Animals; D004564:Electrocoagulation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D008959:Models, Neurological; D011817:Rabbits