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BOOKS
- Rodgers, Joann Ellison. Psychosurgery: Damaging the Brain to Save the Mind. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
- Valenstein, Elliot S. Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness. New York: Basic Books, 1986.
PERIODICALS
- Herbert, Wray. "Psychosurgery Redux." U.S. News and World Report 123, no. 17 (Nov. 1997): 63-64.
- Spangler, W. J., et al. "Magnetic Resonance Image-Guided Stereotactic Cingulotomy for Intractable Psychiatric Disease." Neurosurgery 38, no. 6 (June 1996): 1076-8.
- Vertosick Jr., Frank. "Lobotomy's Back." Discover 18, no. 10 (Oct. 1997): 66-72.
ORGANIZATIONS
- Massachusetts General Hospital. Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery Cingulotomy Unit. Fruit St., Boston, MA02114. (617) 726-2000. <http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/cingulot.htm>.
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). Colonial Place Three, 2107 Wilson Blvd., Ste. 300, Arlington, VA 22201-3042. (800) 950-6264. <http://www.nami.org>.
- National OCD Headquarters. P.O. Box 70, Milford, CT 06460. (203) 878-5669.
- [Article by: Paula Anne Ford-Martin]
