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BookmarkPsychosurgery is a term for surgeries of the brain involving procedures that modulate the performance of the brain, and thus effect changes in cognition, with the intent to treat or alleviate severe mental illness..
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Deep brain stimulation — Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is one of a group of treatments involving surgical implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker, which ... > read moreNote: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Psychosurgery at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
