10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOPECTOMY»
Discover the use of
topectomy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
topectomy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Psychosurgical Problems
In the second place it was found that, in the patients in this series, topectomy
need not produce any easily detectable permanent degradation in any sphere of
function in order to effect a return to society. Moreover, if any undesirable
changes ...
If an area from which seizures arise can be identified from mapping after a phase
II evaluation, removal of that region is called a topectomy. Because the area of
the brain associated with producing seizures cannot always be completely ...
3
Clinical Magnetoencephalography and Magnetic Source Imaging
topectomy. candidates. Early prospective, comparative studies demonstrated the
utility of MEG in patients — children and adults — evaluated for epilepsy surgery [
32]. Subsequent comparative studies from the same center evaluated children ...
Andrew C. Papanicolaou, 2009
4
The Physiology and Pathology of the Cerebellum
274) is the most likely explanation of the fact that the stiffness of the limbs is so
strikingly increased by topectomy of the anterior lobe in spite of the decreased
myotatic activity brought about by the y paralysis. The striking increase in
extensor ...
Robert S. Dow, Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1958
5
Principles of Frontal Lobe Function
The Columbia—Greystone Associate studies (Mettler, 1949) reported primarily
the effects of topectomy, removal of cortex as closely confined to a Brodmann
cytoarchi— tectonic area or combination of areas as possible, in con— trast to the
...
Donald T. Stuss, Robert T. Knight, 2013
6
Being Human, Human Being: Manifesto for a New Psychology
About four months earlier, the decision had been made to try a topectomy rather
than lobotomy. A lobotomy is the imposing ofa cut to separate the frontal lobe
projections from the posterior of the brain. In a topectomy, a piece of the brain is ...
7
Psychopathology: A Source Book
Indeed, a return of certain pathological symptoms was noted in some surgical
patients who had been free from such pathology prior to topectomy. Noticeable
lessening of psychotic symptomatology is reported for lobotomized patients in ...
Charles Frederick Reed, 1958
8
The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. thyroid disease masking as psychosis See
MEDICAL DISORDERS THAT MIMIC PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS. token economy
See BEHAVIOR THERAPY. topectomy A PSYCHOSURGERY procedure
invented ...
9
British Journal of Neurosurgery
TABLE I. Patient characteristics, type of ECoG, surgery and pathological findings
age Sex years Side Site ECoG Resection Pathology Presumed aetiology l M 52 L
Frontal Extraop Topectomy Gliosis Previous AVM excision 2 M 5 R Parietal ...
10
Encyclopedia of Emotion
... of modern psychosurgery. Burckhardt's 1888 topectomy involved excising (
cutting) multiple points in the frontal, parietal, and temporal cortices of the brain.
The topectomy resulted in some successes and some failures (including fatalities
); ...
Gretchen Reevy, Yvette Malamud Ozer, Yuri Ito, 2010
