The treatment of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome by limbic leucotomy.
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- 1 August 1990
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 53 (8), 691-694
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.53.8.691
Abstract
A patient with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and severe self-injurious compulsions who had failed to respond to drug treatment and behavioural therapy obtained a complete and sustained resolution of his destructive behaviour and improvement in his tics following bilateral limbic leucotomy.Keywords
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