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countable and uncountable, plural psychosurgeries
(surgery) Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness. quotations examples
This was studied in humans where amygdalotomies were done not to control seizures but to control aggression. Such psychosurgery provoked fiery controversy in the 1970s. And I don't mean scientists not saying hello to each other at conferences. I mean a major public shit storm.
2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 2, in Behave, Penguin