=====Limbic surgery=====

The surgical targets that are utilized vary across institutions and involve lesions produced bilaterally in the anterior limb of the internal capsule ([[anterior capsulotomy]]), the supragenual anterior cingulate gyrus and cingulum (anterior cingulotomy), and the subgenual anterior cingulate gyrus and subcortical orbitofrontal white matter (subcaudate tractotomy)
((Greenberg BD, Price LH, Rauch SL, et al: Neurosurgery for
intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression:
critical issues. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2003; 14:199–212))
((Cosgrove GR, Rauch SL: Psychosurgery. Neurosurg Clin N
Am 1995; 6:167–176)).

The combination of bilateral cingulotomy and subcaudate tractotomy is known as limbic leucotomy