Citation

Sano K, Mayanagi Y. Acta Neurochir. Suppl. 1988; 44: 145-151.

Affiliation

Department of Neurosurgery, Teikyo University, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3066130

Abstract

Although emotion in the human is largely modified by the frontal association areas (software) and may better be called affect, it is still very much influenced by the balance of the ergotropic and the trophotropic circuits in the prosencephalon (hardware) especially in patients with organic brain lesions. Violent, aggressive, restless behaviours or rage can be regarded as an unbalanced state of these two circuits with dominance of the ergotropic circuit. In order to restore the balance of these two circuits, small stereotactic lesions were made in the ergotropic portion of the posterior hypothalamus (posteromedial hypothalamotomy) with good results in the follow-up of 10-25 years. Postoperatively there was no disturbance in endocrine activities and growth.

Language: en