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Outcome in Bipolar Affective Disorder After Stereotactic Tractotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

L. M. Lovett  and
D. M. Shaw
D. M. Shaw
Affiliation:
University of Wales College of Medicine
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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.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 1 , July 1987 , pp. 113 - 116
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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