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Outcome in bipolar affective disorder after stereotactic tractotomy
1Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff.
Abstract:
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.

