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Electrocoagulation of the Cerebral Orbital Projection in the Persistent Depressive Psychoses of the Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

F. T. Thorpe
F. T. Thorpe*
Affiliation:
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield
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The tranquillizing drugs are used so extensively in the control of psychotic states that the wave of enthusiasm threatens to swamp the entire therapeutic field. Yet, until the scope and limitations of these drugs have been established it would be unwise to neglect advances in other methods of treatment. Prefrontal leucotomy has long since passed the crest of its wave, and in recent years conservative operative techniques and a more selective field of clinical application have rendered it a valuable treatment for certain groups of patients.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 443 , April 1960 , pp. 771 - 779
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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