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Stereotactic surgery provides a safe and effective method of making lesions in the deep structures in the brain to control specific functional neurologic problems. In spite of various advances that have taken place in neuro- and psychopharmacology stereotactic surgery still continues to have a useful place in the treatment of some types of movement disorders, psychiatric illnesses and behavior problems. Placing a lesion in the VL thalamus is even now the ideal way of treating unilateral parkinsonism tremors in younger people especially when there is no response to the latest drugs. In psychiatric disorders, discrete lesions placed in the cingulum bundle and the baso-frontal region provide an effective way of helping patients suffering from severe depression and from obsessive disorders (Ramamurthi et al. 1982).
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Ramamurthi, B., Balasubramaniam, V. (1986). Stereotaxic Hypothalamotomy in Aggressive Behavior. In: Samii, M. (eds) Surgery in and around the Brain Stem and the Third Ventricle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71240-1_72
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