Editing Psychosurgery (section)

===North America===

In the United States, the [[Massachusetts General Hospital]] has a psychosurgery program.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/functional/psysurg.htm |title=Massachusetts General Hospital Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery Center |access-date=2010-05-03 |archive-date=2010-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829204222/http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/functional/psysurg.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Operations are also performed at a few other centres.

In Mexico, psychosurgery is used in the treatment of anorexia<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?idc=144281 |title=El ISSSTE es pionero en psicocirugía contra anorexia |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426023422/http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?idc=144281 |archive-date=2010-04-26 |work=La Cronica |date=17 September 2004}}</ref> and aggression.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Jiménez-Ponce |first=F. |display-authors=etal| year = 2011 | title = Evaluation of bilateral cingulotomy and anterior capsulotomy for the treatment of aggressive behavior | url = http://www.nietoeditores.com.mx/download/Cirugia%20y%20Cirujanos/Marzo-Abril2011/INGLES/Cir%20Cir%20ingles%202.3%20EVALUATION.pdf | journal = Cirugia y Cirujanos | volume = 79 | issue = 2 | pages = 107–13 | pmid = 21631970 | access-date = 2012-02-11 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223250/http://www.nietoeditores.com.mx/download/Cirugia%20y%20Cirujanos/Marzo-Abril2011/INGLES/Cir%20Cir%20ingles%202.3%20EVALUATION.pdf | archive-date = 2016-03-03 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

In Canada, anterior capsulotomies are used in the treatment of depression and OCD.<ref name="Hurwitz">{{cite journal | last = Hurwitz |first=T. A. | year = 2012 | title = Bilateral anterior capsulotomy for depression | url = http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/data/Journals/NP/24390/176.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130605183312/http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/data/Journals/NP/24390/176.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2013-06-05 | journal = Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences | volume = 24 | issue =  2| pages = 176–82 | doi = 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.11080189 | pmid = 22772665 | display-authors = etal }}</ref><ref name="D'Astous">{{cite journal | last = D'Astous |first=M. | year = 2013 | title = Bilateral anterior capsulotomy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: long-term follow-up | journal = Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry | volume = 84 | issue = 11| pages = 1208–13 | doi=10.1136/jnnp-2012-303826| pmid = 23733922 | s2cid = 2143 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>