Psychosurgery is brain surgery which is performed to treat psychiatric disease.
Psychosurgery is rare, about 50 operations are performed per year in the UK.
The most common operation is a bifrontal leukotomy.
There is no conclusive data on efficacy but case studies suggest that depressed patients have a 60% chance of being well or improved at 1 year.
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