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The British Journal of Psychiatry 155: 547-550 (1989)
© 1989 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Outcome in unipolar affective disorder after stereotactic tractotomy

LM Lovett, R Crimmins and DM Shaw
Department of Psychiatry, University of Liverpool.

An evaluation of 15 patients treated by subcaudate stereotactic tractotomy (SST) for treatment-resistant unipolar affective disorder was made for frequency and severity of recurrence of illness. One-third had died by the time of assessment, but none by suicide. Two-thirds of the sample experienced a reduction in the severity of depressive episodes after the operation; only one-third reported a reduction in frequency of episodes.




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