The metabolic effects of limbic leucotomy in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
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Regional cerebral oxygen metabolism was measured before and after limbic leucotomy in a patient with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder, and obsessional slowness. The preoperative scan showed hypermetabolism in the caudate nuclei, which normalised after operation. It is proposed that the beneficial effects of this operation on both tics and obsessive compulsive behaviour are mediated by disruption of abnormal neural activity in basal ganglia-thalamocortical loops.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
دوره 56 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993