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1
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Cosgrove and Rauch findings positve or negative?

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Positive

2
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What did Cosgrove and Rauch find?

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Bilateral cingulotomy was effective in 65% of patients suffering from major affective disorder (depression/bipolar) and 56% patients suffering from OCD

3
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What is one weakness to Cosgrove and Rauches findings

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Only about 25 patients a year are currently treated in this way in the USA so it is diffcult to make conclusions about the effectivness

4
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Mayberg findings positve or negative?

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Positive

5
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What did Mayberg find?

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4 out of 6 patients with severe depression had their symptoms dramatically reduced after having deep brain stimulation

6
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Moniz findings positve or negative?

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Positive

7
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What did Moniz find?

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70% success rate in for patients suffering from schizophrenia and anxiety

8
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Negatives of psychosurgery

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  • There is no scientific evidence to support the claim prefrontal lobotomies had any effect on psychological disorder
  • Symptoms are treated rather than the underlying cause of the psychological disorder
9
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Was Comers findings positive or negaitve

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Negative

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What did Comer find

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  • Psychosurgery was both inapropriate and ineffective
  • Lobotomies had a fatality rate of up to 6% and a range of severe physical side effects such as brain seizures and lack of emotional responsivness
11
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What did Bridges at al (1994) state

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It is a treatment of last resort so no controlled trial against a comparable treatment is possible

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