Bilateral cingulotomy
Neurosurgical procedure for treating depression, OCD, and chronic pain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bilateral cingulotomy is a form of psychosurgery, introduced in 1948 as an alternative to lobotomy. Today, it is mainly used in the treatment of depression[1] and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In the early years of the twenty-first century, it was used in Russia to treat addiction.[2][3][4] It is also used in the treatment of chronic pain.[5] The objective of this procedure is the severing of the supracallosal fibres of the cingulum bundle, which pass through the anterior cingulate gyrus.[6]